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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?
>
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