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Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2025 05:49:05 +0100
From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
	Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Subject: Re: bad things when too many negative dentries in a directory
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On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 11:40:28AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:

> Except for shrink_dcache_parent() I don't see any uses.  And it's also
> a question whether shrinking negative dentries is useful or not.

One-word answer: umount.