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Although directory entry and parent pointer recordsets look very similar (name -> ino), there's one major difference between them: a file can be hardlinked from multiple parent directories with the same filename. This is common in shared container environments where a base directory tree might be hardlink-copied multiple times. IOWs the same 'ls' program might be hardlinked to multiple /srv/*/bin/ls paths. We don't want parent pointer operations to bog down on hash collisions between the same dirent name, so create a special hash function that mixes in the parent directory inode number. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.