Early in the reiserfs xattr development, there was a plan to use hardlinks to save disk space for identical xattrs. That code never materialized and isn't going to, so this patch removes the detection code. Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx> --- fs/reiserfs/xattr.c | 13 ------------- 1 file changed, 13 deletions(-) --- a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c 2007-05-30 15:44:34.000000000 -0400 +++ b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c 2007-05-30 17:55:08.000000000 -0400 @@ -384,7 +384,6 @@ reiserfs_xattr_set(struct inode *inode, if (!buffer) return reiserfs_xattr_del(inode, name); - open_file: fp = open_xattr_file(inode, name, flags); if (IS_ERR(fp)) { err = PTR_ERR(fp); @@ -394,18 +393,6 @@ reiserfs_xattr_set(struct inode *inode, xahash = xattr_hash(buffer, buffer_size); xinode = fp->f_path.dentry->d_inode; - /* we need to copy it off.. */ - if (xinode->i_nlink > 1) { - fput(fp); - err = reiserfs_xattr_del(inode, name); - if (err < 0) - goto out; - /* We just killed the old one, we're not replacing anymore */ - if (flags & XATTR_REPLACE) - flags &= ~XATTR_REPLACE; - goto open_file; - } - /* Resize it so we're ok to write there */ newattrs.ia_size = buffer_size; newattrs.ia_valid = ATTR_SIZE | ATTR_CTIME; -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html