Re: [RFC] Slimming down struct inode

Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]> wrote:
> 3) Move i_pipe, i_bdev, and i_cdev into a union.  An inode cannot
>    simultaneously be a pipe, block device, and character device at the
>    same time.

Mabe a regular file inode atribute can be put in that union, too?

Gruss
Bernd


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