src/patches/suse-2.6.27.31/patches.suse/reiserfs-remove-link-detection.diff

   1 From: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
   2 Subject: reiserfs: remove link detection code
   3
   4  Early in the reiserfs xattr development, there was a plan to use hardlinks
   5  to save disk space for identical xattrs. That code never materialized and
   6  isn't going to, so this patch removes the detection code.
   7
   8 Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
   9
  10 ---
  11  fs/reiserfs/xattr.c |   13 -------------
  12  1 file changed, 13 deletions(-)
  13
  14 --- a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
  15 +++ b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
  16 @@ -432,7 +432,6 @@ reiserfs_xattr_set(struct inode *inode,
  17         if (buffer && buffer_size)
  18                 xahash = xattr_hash(buffer, buffer_size);
  19
  20 -      open_file:
  21         dentry = get_xa_file_dentry(inode, name, flags);
  22         if (IS_ERR(dentry)) {
  23                 err = PTR_ERR(dentry);
  24 @@ -441,18 +440,6 @@ reiserfs_xattr_set(struct inode *inode,
  25
  26         REISERFS_I(inode)->i_flags |= i_has_xattr_dir;
  27
  28 -       /* we need to copy it off.. */
  29 -       if (dentry->d_inode->i_nlink > 1) {
  30 -               dput(dentry);
  31 -               err = reiserfs_xattr_del(inode, name);
  32 -               if (err < 0)
  33 -                       goto out;
  34 -               /* We just killed the old one, we're not replacing anymore */
  35 -               if (flags & XATTR_REPLACE)
  36 -                       flags &= ~XATTR_REPLACE;
  37 -               goto open_file;
  38 -       }
  39 -
  40         /* Resize it so we're ok to write there */
  41         newattrs.ia_size = buffer_size;
  42         newattrs.ia_valid = ATTR_SIZE | ATTR_CTIME;