reiserfs: remove link detection code

Early in the reiserfs xattr development, there was a plan to use
hardlinks to save disk space for identical xattrs.  That code never
materialized and isn't going to, so this patch removes the detection
code.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
index 132d901da08f..3e9e82ca3ba2 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
@@ -432,7 +432,6 @@ reiserfs_xattr_set(struct inode *inode, const char *name, const void *buffer,
         if (buffer && buffer_size)
                 xahash = xattr_hash(buffer, buffer_size);
 
-      open_file:
         dentry = get_xa_file_dentry(inode, name, flags);
         if (IS_ERR(dentry)) {
                 err = PTR_ERR(dentry);
@@ -441,18 +440,6 @@ reiserfs_xattr_set(struct inode *inode, const char *name, const void *buffer,
 
         REISERFS_I(inode)->i_flags |= i_has_xattr_dir;
 
-        /* we need to copy it off.. */
-        if (dentry->d_inode->i_nlink > 1) {
-                dput(dentry);
-                err = reiserfs_xattr_del(inode, name);
-                if (err < 0)
-                        goto out;
-                /* We just killed the old one, we're not replacing anymore */
-                if (flags & XATTR_REPLACE)
-                        flags &= ~XATTR_REPLACE;
-                goto open_file;
-        }
-
         /* Resize it so we're ok to write there */
         newattrs.ia_size = buffer_size;
         newattrs.ia_valid = ATTR_SIZE | ATTR_CTIME;