From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 13:27:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 13:27:42 -0500 Received: from colorfullife.com ([216.156.138.34]:52750 "EHLO colorfullife.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 13:27:33 -0500 Message-ID: <3BE58883.844058@colorfullife.com> Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2001 19:27:15 +0100 From: Manfred Spraul X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.14-pre7 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@math.psu.edu Subject: Re: [CFT][PATCH] ramfs/tmpfs readdir() Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Note that other filesystems would already enjoy having a d_offset in the > dentry: it allows for various other optimizations (ie making "unlink()" a > O(1) operation, by not having to search the directory). > The dentry structure already contains 2 members for filesystem use (d_time and d_fsdata), is a third member really required? -- Manfred