Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 12 Jul 1998 12:23:30 -0700 | | From | Hans Reiser <> | | Subject | Re: ext2fs: do directories ever shrink? |
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You might just wait three months for it to prove stable and then use reiserfs.
See http://devlinux/namesys
Hans
Farzad FARID wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > Ext2 directories never shrink. This is mainly because of > > race conditions and coding difficulty. > > If a directory size really bothers you, you must have been > > doing something _very_ strange anyway :) > > I have an program that sometimes manipulates directories containing > thousands of files, sometimes 40000. The directory size sometimes reached > 1.6 Mb... > OK, you could say there's a design flaw in the program. But now, even if > I empty the directory and leave just 2 or 3 files in it the access time is > very slow. I did some timings with 'strace -c ls' and now the call to > getdents() is a hundred times slower than for a fresh directory! > So globally my apps run slower even though I emptied all the directories, > and if I want to attain top speed again I have to rmdir/mkdir the > directories again. Is this a permanent limitation is ext2? Is there a way > to fix it? > > -- > Farzad FARID > Administrateur Reseau > Publicis Technology > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.altern.org/andrebalsa/doc/lkml-faq.html
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