> Did you read the entire posting?
Yes. But I sent my message before finishing my comments....
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)).
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.
-Chris
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