Dentry negativity

Posted Mar 16, 2020 23:59 UTC (Mon) by luto (guest, #39314)
In reply to: Dentry negativity by neilbrown
Parent article: Dentry negativity

This isn’t necessarily a good idea, but: couldn’t a directory have a no-negative-dentry flag that is ignored for file creation? That is, for a lookup that isn’t associated with file creation, no negative dentry would be created.