Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | 2 Mar 1998 16:34:07 -0000 | | Subject | Re: WEIRD ext2fs dir size BUG? | | From | (Anthony DeBoer) |
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes: > > ... you can always rmdir and mkdir the directory to > > reclaim the extra blocks. > > For some things like news servers an e2fsdefrag or e2fsck option to > compact directories might be useful.
In the general case, if the number of files in a directory has previously hit some high-water mark, there's a chance it'll happen again, and having that much contiguous space allocated to the directory should be a win.
Certainly, there may be cases of spewage causing really huge directories, and if steps have been made to prevent that happening again it would be useful to wind them back to a more reasonable size.
What would be useful for news servers would be an option to defrag directories only, to thereby improve performance, and not bother with files that are probably going to get expired soon anyway.
-- Anthony DeBoer <adb@onramp.ca>
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