reiserfs: remove link detection code
authorJeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:02:31 +0000 (14:02 -0400)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:16:37 +0000 (12:16 -0700)
Early in the reiserfs xattr development, there was a plan to use
hardlinks to save disk space for identical xattrs.  That code never
materialized and isn't going to, so this patch removes the detection
code.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/reiserfs/xattr.c

index 132d901da08f94f3b91c15ed34a6969b66269b18..3e9e82ca3ba2a8fbd077323d4934fd70485f6dee 100644 (file)
@@ -432,7 +432,6 @@ reiserfs_xattr_set(struct inode *inode, const char *name, const void *buffer,
        if (buffer && buffer_size)
                xahash = xattr_hash(buffer, buffer_size);
 
-      open_file:
        dentry = get_xa_file_dentry(inode, name, flags);
        if (IS_ERR(dentry)) {
                err = PTR_ERR(dentry);
@@ -441,18 +440,6 @@ reiserfs_xattr_set(struct inode *inode, const char *name, const void *buffer,
 
        REISERFS_I(inode)->i_flags |= i_has_xattr_dir;
 
-       /* we need to copy it off.. */
-       if (dentry->d_inode->i_nlink > 1) {
-               dput(dentry);
-               err = reiserfs_xattr_del(inode, name);
-               if (err < 0)
-                       goto out;
-               /* We just killed the old one, we're not replacing anymore */
-               if (flags & XATTR_REPLACE)
-                       flags &= ~XATTR_REPLACE;
-               goto open_file;
-       }
-
        /* Resize it so we're ok to write there */
        newattrs.ia_size = buffer_size;
        newattrs.ia_valid = ATTR_SIZE | ATTR_CTIME;