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.
next prev parent 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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