> On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 02:59:43AM -0400, Chad C Giffin wrote:
>
> > 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.
Somehow I doubt a never idle server will want it's dirs shrank since it
will probably use the entries again in the near future.
Gerhard
>
> 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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