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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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