Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 May 2002 12:24:37 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: negative dentries wasting ram |
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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.
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