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 2007-06-11 14:49:36.000000000 -0400
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c 2007-06-11 14:50:06.000000000 -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;
--
Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs
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