Re: negative dentries wasting ram

David S. Miller
2002-05-24T15:06:05Z

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 07:43:32 -0700 (PDT)

However, you're right that it probably doesn't help to do this after
"unlink()" - it's probably only worth doing when actually doing a
"lookup()" that fails.

There was some stupidity in how rm -rf * works that I remember from
some NFS hacking, but it may not be effected by this.