Re: negative dentries wasting ram

Florian Weimer (Weimer@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE)
Sat, 25 May 2002 19:33:27 +0200


Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> writes:

> In glibc 2.3 this will be open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", ), so
> negative dentries won't be useful for glibc locale handling (that
> doesn't mean negative dentries won't be useful for other things, including
> exec?p or searching libraries if $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is used).

I guess Apache's .htaccess checking benefits from negative caching,
too.

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