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SubjectRe: [Ext2-devel] Re: Shrinking ext3 directories


On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 06:18:49PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> > IOW, making sure that empty blocks in the end of directory get freed
> > is a matter of 10-20 lines. If you want such patch - just tell, it's
> > half an hour of work...
>
> It's certainly easier at the tail, but with htree we may have
> genuinely enormous directories and being able to hole-punch arbitrary
> coalesced blocks could be a huge win. Also, doing the coalescing
I would can contribute on that. I am thinking about it anyway.
Daniel might already has some code there.

I have a silly question, where is that ext3 CVS? Under sourcefourge
ext2/ext3 or gkernel?

Chris


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