Re: How long can an inode structure reside in the inode_cache?

[Bernd Eckenfels]

Xin Zhao <uszhaoxin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> put into the inode_cache, but when will this inode be free and removed
> from the inode_cache? after this file is closed? If so, this seems to
> be inefficient.

What do you consider inefficient? that is cached too long or too short? Open
files wont be pruned, closed files when there is memory pressure. Thats
quite efficient.

Gruss
Bernd
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