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

Olaf Titz (olaf@bigred.inka.de)
Fri, 17 Jul 1998 20:19:44 +0200


> 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.

Depends on the usage pattern. With a classic news server you're right.
(Now that INN 2.0 is out and rather stable there is a solution for
news which gets at the root of the problem, but that's a different
thing :-)

But there's a special case: you never want to shrink the /lost+found
directory, or e2fack will break...

olaf

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