Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Feb 2000 16:45:25 -0500 | From | willy@thepuffi ... | Subject | Re: very large directories |
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On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 09:37:11AM -0600, Jesse Pollard wrote: > I will admit that I don't know if Linux compacts the directory > on each delete. If it doesn't then delete time is limited only by the > time to delete each file. If it does, then it is limited by the number > of file entries being compacted (copy time is longer than delete time).
ext2 never compacts directories.
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