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SubjectRe: PATCH to pre-patch-2.1.45: clean_inode needs to reset i_writecount
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> > > The whole concept of "dtime" is _wrong_.
> > >
> > > Reason: it implies you have to write out the inode after deleting it.
> > > Which is just stupid, plain and simple - if we have deallocated the inode
> > > it by definition no longer contains any useful information, so we
> > > shouldn't spend time writing it out to disk.

> Wake up, people.. Getting rid of dtime + the "n_link = 0" information
> would not make the filesystem any less secure, but it _would_ make it
> faster.

> Linus

An expire on an ext2-fs for a news system takes incredibly long indeed.
So does a "rm -rf *". I'd really like the performance boost.

Greetings,
Rob van Nieuwkerk

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