Re: Question on bad links?

[Tim]

On Sun, 2022-09-18 at 21:44 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote:
> With a symlink, that "data" is the string that shows as the symlink
> target. The advantage over a tiny file is that if the string is short
> enough to fit within the inode structure, no data block on the disk
> needs to be allocated. That's faster and more efficient than creating
> a file since the inode needs to be set up and written in any case.
> systemd is far from the first program to take advantage of this.

Interesting.  What about the old running out of inodes on a disc
problem?  How did they handle that?