Dentry negativity

Posted Mar 21, 2020 8:25 UTC (Sat) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Dentry negativity by faramir
Parent article: Dentry negativity

You've just made the same mistake I did higher up. See Neil Brown's answer to me.

(Over)Simply put, the *path* name is hashed, and use to look up the table. (I guess that's over-simplistic, but the idea is close enough.) The lookup never goes anywhere near the directory itself.

Cheers,
Wol