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Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 17:57:04 +1300
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
Cc: Steven Van Acker <deepstar@ulyssis.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: ext2 directory size bug (?)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1001130081717.723A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>; from root@chaos.analogic.com on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 08:24:02AM -0500
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On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 08:24:02AM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

    This is actually a feature. The directory does not get truncated.

Arguably directories could be truncated when objects towards the end
are removed; I believe UFS under Solaris might do this? 

An even better heuristic I like would allow repacking of a directory
and truncation if you could safely half the size -- but I suspect
locking issues might be hideous here.


  --cw
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