Garbage collect pristine nodes

[Artem Bityuckiy]

David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 18:06 +0300, Artem Bityuckiy wrote:
> 
>>We allocate sizeof(struct jffs2_raw_inode) + JFFS2_MIN_DATA_LEN which is 
>>   only 68 + 128 bytes. But the maximum size of direntry is more than 
>>245 bytes. So, if few bytes were allocated (alloclen < rawlen) and this 
>>is just direntry with long name, we Garbage Collect it using long path 
>>(which is unneeded).
> 
> 
> How often does this _actually_ happen? Remember, alloclen tells us how
> much space is _available_ -- it could be larger than the amount we asked
> for. So we'll only take the long route if the name in the dirent is
> large _and_ it wouldn't actually fit in the end of the eraseblock.
> 
Hmm, you are right.

Forget about this :-)

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