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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: negative dentries wasting ram
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 12:24:37 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0205241222380.9792-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020524162119.GA15703@dualathlon.random>



On Fri, 24 May 2002, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> it's not a common case to delete a file and then to try to access it,

I'm less than sure about that.

> while there are common cases that wants to avoid stale dentries around
> for deleted files.

Keep in mind that e.g. rm -rf on a tree _will_ evict the dentries in
question, so quite a few of these cases actually don't leave the stuff
behind.


  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-24 16:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-24  7:16 negative dentries wasting ram Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-24  8:10 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-05-24 15:36   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-24 16:12     ` Alexander Viro
2002-05-24 16:21       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-24 16:24         ` Alexander Viro [this message]
2002-05-24 14:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-05-24 14:51   ` David S. Miller
2002-05-24 14:53   ` Jakub Jelinek
2002-05-24 20:44     ` David Schwartz
2002-05-25 17:33     ` Florian Weimer
2002-05-24 15:54   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-24 16:22   ` Alexander Viro
2002-05-24 16:29     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-05-24 16:39       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-24 17:04         ` Alexander Viro
2002-05-24 17:06           ` Alexander Viro
2002-05-24 17:55           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-24 18:00             ` Alexander Viro
2002-05-24 18:58               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-24 19:04                 ` Alexander Viro
2002-05-24 19:43                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-24 19:55                     ` Alexander Viro
2002-05-24 20:36                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-24 22:14                         ` Jan Harkes
2002-05-24 22:31                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-26  8:06             ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-05-24 17:00       ` Alexander Viro
2002-05-24 18:36         ` Mark Mielke
2002-05-31  8:34 ` Oliver Neukum

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