Documentation: Fix grammatical error in sysctl/fs.txt & clarify negative dentry
Fix a grammatical error in the dentry-state text and clarify the usage
of negative dentries.
Fixes: af0c9af1b3
("fs/dcache: Track & report number of negative dentries")
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@ -80,7 +80,9 @@ nonzero when shrink_dcache_pages() has been called and the
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dcache isn't pruned yet.
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dcache isn't pruned yet.
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nr_negative shows the number of unused dentries that are also
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nr_negative shows the number of unused dentries that are also
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negative dentries which do not mapped to actual files.
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negative dentries which do not map to any files. Instead,
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they help speeding up rejection of non-existing files provided
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by the users.
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