From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Mahoney Subject: [patch 16/35 xattr-rework] reiserfs: remove link detection code Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:02:31 -0400 Message-ID: <20090330181011.335919655@suse.com> References: <20090330180215.951354436@suse.com> Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline; filename=patches.suse/reiserfs-remove-link-detection.diff Sender: reiserfs-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Cc: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , ReiserFS Development List Early in the reiserfs xattr development, there was a plan to use hardlinks to save disk space for identical xattrs. That code never materialized and isn't going to, so this patch removes the detection code. Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney --- fs/reiserfs/xattr.c | 13 ------------- 1 file changed, 13 deletions(-) --- a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c +++ b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c @@ -432,7 +432,6 @@ reiserfs_xattr_set(struct inode *inode, if (buffer && buffer_size) xahash = xattr_hash(buffer, buffer_size); - open_file: dentry = get_xa_file_dentry(inode, name, flags); if (IS_ERR(dentry)) { err = PTR_ERR(dentry); @@ -441,18 +440,6 @@ reiserfs_xattr_set(struct inode *inode, REISERFS_I(inode)->i_flags |= i_has_xattr_dir; - /* we need to copy it off.. */ - if (dentry->d_inode->i_nlink > 1) { - dput(dentry); - err = reiserfs_xattr_del(inode, name); - if (err < 0) - goto out; - /* We just killed the old one, we're not replacing anymore */ - if (flags & XATTR_REPLACE) - flags &= ~XATTR_REPLACE; - goto open_file; - } - /* Resize it so we're ok to write there */ newattrs.ia_size = buffer_size; newattrs.ia_valid = ATTR_SIZE | ATTR_CTIME;