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 --- fs/reiserfs/xattr.c | 13 ------------- 1 file changed, 13 deletions(-) --- a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c +++ b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c @@ -432,7 +432,6 @@ reiserfs_xattr_set(struct inode *inode, 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, 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; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/