On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Rene Gollent <anevilyak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > No, most of the more fundamental FS attributes like permissions and > ctime/mtime are stored in the inode itself, and for good reason: > performance. Retrieving an attribute that is not stored in the > small_data area (extra space at the end of the inode used for storing > as many attrs as can fit) requires a) reading the location of the > node's attribute dir, b) seeking to that, c) reading the attribute dir > for the requested attribute's location, d) seeking to that, and e) > reading that - very very slow, especially if you have to do it a few > tens or hundreds of times like for a typical directory. > > Regards, > > Rene > Ah! It makes perfect sense! I've become desensitized to a lot of performance issues, having grown up with faster and faster computers :) Thanks :) -- Dustin L. Howett