Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: PATCH to pre-patch-2.1.45: clean_inode needs to reset i_writecount | Date | Sat, 12 Jul 1997 13:38:49 +0200 | From | Rob van Nieuwkerk <> |
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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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