Fix a grammatical error in the dentry-state text and clarify the usage of negative dentries. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt index 58649bd..ebc679b 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt @@ -80,7 +80,9 @@ nonzero when shrink_dcache_pages() has been called and the dcache isn't pruned yet. nr_negative shows the number of unused dentries that are also -negative dentries which do not mapped to actual files. +negative dentries which do not map to any files. Instead, +they help speeding up rejection of non-existing files provided +by the users. ============================================================== -- 1.8.3.1
