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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: torvalds@transmeta.com
Cc: andrea@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@math.psu.edu
Subject: Re: negative dentries wasting ram
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 07:51:33 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020524.075133.118235229.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0205240737400.26171-100000@home.transmeta.com>

   From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
   Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 07:43:32 -0700 (PDT)
   
   However, you're right that it probably doesn't help to do this after
   "unlink()" - it's probably only worth doing when actually doing a
   "lookup()" that fails.

There was some stupidity in how rm -rf * works that I remember from
some NFS hacking, but it may not be effected by this.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-24 15:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-24  7:16 negative dentries wasting ram Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-24  8:10 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-05-24 15:36   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-24 16:12     ` Alexander Viro
2002-05-24 16:21       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-24 16:24         ` Alexander Viro
2002-05-24 14:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-05-24 14:51   ` David S. Miller [this message]
2002-05-24 14:53   ` Jakub Jelinek
2002-05-24 20:44     ` David Schwartz
2002-05-25 17:33     ` Florian Weimer
2002-05-24 15:54   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-24 16:22   ` Alexander Viro
2002-05-24 16:29     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-05-24 16:39       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-24 17:04         ` Alexander Viro
2002-05-24 17:06           ` Alexander Viro
2002-05-24 17:55           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-24 18:00             ` Alexander Viro
2002-05-24 18:58               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-24 19:04                 ` Alexander Viro
2002-05-24 19:43                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-24 19:55                     ` Alexander Viro
2002-05-24 20:36                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-24 22:14                         ` Jan Harkes
2002-05-24 22:31                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-26  8:06             ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-05-24 17:00       ` Alexander Viro
2002-05-24 18:36         ` Mark Mielke
2002-05-31  8:34 ` Oliver Neukum

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