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| author | Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> | 2019-02-07 15:15:42 -0500 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-02-11 09:10:22 -0800 |
| commit | 1413d9af241c3c3b36319213b725a9e95be3935f (patch) | |
| tree | b95b10276b69cd40e98f9f429348b6491f00f768 /Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt | |
| parent | d13937116f1e82bf508a6325111b322c30c85eb9 (diff) | |
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Documentation: Fix grammatical error in sysctl/fs.txt & clarify negative dentry
Fix a grammatical error in the dentry-state text and clarify the usage
of negative dentries.
Fixes: af0c9af1b3f66 ("fs/dcache: Track & report number of negative dentries")
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt index 58649bd4fcfc..ebc679bcb2dc 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt @@ -80,7 +80,9 @@ nonzero when shrink_dcache_pages() has been called and the dcache isn't pruned yet. nr_negative shows the number of unused dentries that are also -negative dentries which do not mapped to actual files. +negative dentries which do not map to any files. Instead, +they help speeding up rejection of non-existing files provided +by the users. ============================================================== |
