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
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
@@ -432,7 +432,6 @@ reiserfs_xattr_set(struct inode *inode,
if (buffer && buffer_size)
xahash = xattr_hash(buffer, buffer_size);
- open_file:
dentry = get_xa_file_dentry(inode, name, flags);
if (IS_ERR(dentry)) {
err = PTR_ERR(dentry);
@@ -441,18 +440,6 @@ reiserfs_xattr_set(struct inode *inode,
REISERFS_I(inode)->i_flags |= i_has_xattr_dir;
- /* we need to copy it off.. */
- if (dentry->d_inode->i_nlink > 1) {
- dput(dentry);
- 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;
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