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You're assuming the inodes of all the parent directories would be flushed to disk every time they change. This is already not the case. It would be just a matte
by apenwarr 6y ago
You're assuming the inodes of all the parent directories would be flushed to disk every time they change. This is already not the case. It would be just a matter of touching the data structure in memory and eventually flushing it out.
- dspillett 6y agoYou are assuming a modern filesystem and/or cacheing architecture in a machine with enough memory to spare to run it effectively (though in fairness the post you replied to directly did mention a fairly modern use case). Back when the behaviours being discussed became the norm the landscape was pretty different.