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Date:      Mon, 24 Aug 1998 08:37:43 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      poipoi@famipow.com
To:        jack@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz (Jan Kara)
Cc:        poipoi@famipow.com, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, linux-fsdevel@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject:   Re: name cache wiping in readdir ?
Message-ID:  <19980824063743.634.qmail@hwi.poi.org>
In-Reply-To: <19980823224905.35695@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> from Jan Kara at "Aug 23, 98 10:49:05 pm"

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>   Hello.
> 
> > 	hi
> > 
> > in ext2, each name read by readdir (called by getdents(2)) is sent in
> > the name cache.
>   OK. Looking in both ext2 and linux/fs/readdir.c getdents() code (kernel 2.1.117), I
> haven't found a place where the names would be sent to dcache. They are only stored
> in a special structure linux_dirent which has nothing to do with dcache.

you are right, i wasn't aware of this modification, but the sources
(2.0.21) i have on my disk have it just before filldir(). personnaly i
dont care of current state, i just wanna know if it is a good or a bad
policy and why.

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