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Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 07:51:33 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: negative dentries wasting ram
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   From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
   Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 07:43:32 -0700 (PDT)
   
   However, you're right that it probably doesn't help to do this after
   "unlink()" - it's probably only worth doing when actually doing a
   "lookup()" that fails.

There was some stupidity in how rm -rf * works that I remember from
some NFS hacking, but it may not be effected by this.