Re: PATCH to pre-patch-2.1.45: clean_inode needs to reset
Rob van Nieuwkerk (robn@verdi.et.tudelft.nl)
Sat, 12 Jul 1997 13:38:49 +0200
> > > The whole concept of "dtime" is _wrong_.
> > >
> > > Reason: it implies you have to write out the inode after deleting it.
> > > Which is just stupid, plain and simple - if we have deallocated the inode
> > > it by definition no longer contains any useful information, so we
> > > shouldn't spend time writing it out to disk.
> Wake up, people.. Getting rid of dtime + the "n_link = 0" information
> would not make the filesystem any less secure, but it _would_ make it
> faster.
> Linus
An expire on an ext2-fs for a news system takes incredibly long indeed.
So does a "rm -rf *". I'd really like the performance boost.
Greetings,
Rob van Nieuwkerk