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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt index 58649bd4fcfc..ebc679bcb2dc 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt @@ -80,7 +80,9 @@ nonzero when shrink_dcache_pages() has been called and the dcache isn't pruned yet. nr_negative shows the number of unused dentries that are also -negative dentries which do not mapped to actual files. +negative dentries which do not map to any files. Instead, +they help speeding up rejection of non-existing files provided +by the users. ============================================================== |