Re: ext2fs enhacement/fix [re: shrinking directories]
Jan Kara (jack@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Mon, 20 Jul 1998 12:13:41 +0200
>
> Rough outline of steps I think would work:
> 1. Read directory information
> 2. Pack and possibly sort it, meanwhile other programs can still access
> the directory information
> 3. Check change time stamp and if not changed replace the directory
> information with the new one
> If changed try again.
>
The problem of this solution is (when done on mounted fs) that noone can be
reading the directory when we are replacing the old copy (dir->f_pos will be bad :() and
I'm not sure how often this is satisfied on a busy servers with big dirs...
Bye Honza
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