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Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 23:06:49 +0800
From: "rae l" <crquan@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: It's time to hack on dentry_stat?
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On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> wrote:
>  You have to not break:
>
>  $ cat /proc/sys/fs/dentry-state
>  122104  115846  45      0       0       0
But why? for some applicatioins?

The struct dentry_stat can be modified to have only two useful fields,
and let the other four printed with 0,
I have greped age_limit, that's also not used anymore, why we should
let it keep 45? Or Is there some historical reason?

Or just consider /proc/sys/fs/dentry-state as a binary application interface?