Re: negative dentries wasting ram

Alexander Viro
2002-05-24T16:12:22Z

On Fri, 24 May 2002, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> The fs access will be exactly the same, only the dentry won't be
> allocated because it's just in the hash, but it has no inode and it
> doesn't correspond to any on-disk dentry, we simply cannot defer the

RTFS.

Lookup on a name that has hashed negative dentry does not touch fs code.
At all.