Re: bad things when too many negative dentries in a directory

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On Sun, 20 Apr 2025 at 06:49, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 11:40:28AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
>
> > Except for shrink_dcache_parent() I don't see any uses.  And it's also
> > a question whether shrinking negative dentries is useful or not.
>
> One-word answer: umount.

shink_dcache_sb() should work fine in that situation.

The only thing it can't do is hunt down spurious references to
dentries, but that's a debug thing and not something that is needed in
production.

Am I missing something?

Thanks,
Miklos




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