On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 02:43:44PM +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > Yes, and you can get the performance back if you allow negative dentries to > be created. You just have to make sure that every time a directory entry > is created in directory X, all negative dentries which are children of > directory X are thrown away. We might even be able to optimize this a little by calling d_compare on each alias to see if it hashes down to the same one down in the fs. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html