Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Jul 1998 03:42:26 -0400 (EDT) | From | Chad C Giffin <> | Subject | Re: ext2fs enhacement/fix [re: shrinking directories] |
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On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
:An I don't think a low priority thread for the case of never-idle servers :will work either. : :Some of those machines are continually seeking, and _any_ disk activity will :slow stuff down, perhaps considerably. : :If you want to shrink directories, I think it has to be done from somewhere :within unlink(2) (and perhaps rename(2)).
highly inefficient to be shrinking on each call. it would have to conditionally shrink depending on how needed the shrinking was.
:Except for a few special circumstances, I really don't think shrinking :directories is a big issue yet, let it wait for the new ext2fs code in :2.3.x.
I'd like to see the problem take care of and in the next 2.0.4x
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