Inode table

[David Kreuter]

hmm - not sure on this - my understanding is that a certain amount of 
inodes are kept in memory. The inode for the root of the file system is 
pointed at by the vfs superblock.  My question is how is the in codre 
indoe table kept.

Lennart Sorensen wrote:

>On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 09:55:46AM -0500, David Kreuter wrote:
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>>thanks - very informative. I'm interested as well in how the inode table 
>>is allocated in memory. For now I'll just consider it as an abstract table -
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>Well the inode table is on disk.  How the filesystem driver wants to
>cache that info in ram is entirely up to it.  Linux also adds the vfs
>layer on top of all filesystems to provide a consistent generic
>interface for much of the caching routines and such.  Each filesystem
>driver simply provides function call hooks for the vfs layer to use to
>access that type of filesystem.
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>Lennart Sorensen
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