Tux3 Report: Faster than tmpfs, what?

[Andreas Dilger]

On 2013-05-14, at 0:25, Daniel Phillips <daniel.raymond.phillips at gmail.com> wrote:
> Interesting, Andreas. We don't do anything as heavyweight as
> allocating an inode in this path, just mark the inode dirty (which
> puts it on a list) and set a bit in the inode flags.

The new inode allocation is only needed for the truncate-to-zero case. If the inode is being deleted it is used directly. 

Sorry for confusion, it has been a long time since I looked at that code. 

Cheers, Andreas