: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)).
highly inefficient to be shrinking on each call.
it would have to conditionally shrink depending on how needed the
shrinking was.
: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.
I'd like to see the problem take care of and in the next 2.0.4x
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