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dentry-negative

file: /proc/sys/fs/dentry-negative
variable: fs.dentry-negative
Official reference

Policy for negative dentries. Set to 1 to always delete the dentry when a file is removed, and 0 to disable it. By default, this behavior is disabled.

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Last update: 2026-03-30 12:00:00 UTC
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