Re: ext2fs enhacement/fix [re: shrinking directories]

Chris Wedgwood (chris@cybernet.co.nz)
Thu, 16 Jul 1998 19:46:20 +1200


On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 03:42:26AM -0400, Chad C Giffin wrote:

> highly inefficient to be shrinking on each call.
> it would have to conditionally shrink depending on how needed the
> shrinking was.

obviously. perhaps shrink only when it possible to half the size of the
directory storage.

> I'd like to see the problem take care of and in the next 2.0.4x

Why?

Do you have some application thats adversly affected by this?

And does such a feature really belong in 2.0.x (or 2.2.x for that matter) ?

-cw

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