Re: ext2fs: do directories ever shrink?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 13 Jul 1998 00:39:27 +0100 (BST)

> Maybe on disk. But somehow at up to 50000 files no slowdown is
> noticeable when adding or looking up files. This is one of the areas
> where I saw big difference in performance between FreeBSD UFS and
> Linux ext2fs.

Interesting. Is this compared to Linux 2.0 or 2.1 - ie is it smart caching or
have they got something clever added on the UFS directory structure we should
look at

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