Inode table

[Tim Writer]

lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org (Lennart Sorensen) writes:

> On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 03:51:39PM -0500, David Kreuter wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I suspect the only thing really kept in memory is by the kernel's
> caching of raw disc blocks

[snip]

Sorry if I offend but this is kind of a dumb thread.  There are some
excellent books on the subject, including this one:

    http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxkernel2/

There's also good information online, like this walk through of what the
kernel does when running a small program:

    http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/vfs/trail.html

And, of course, there's the kernel source.  In short, there's no need to
guess.

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