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To: adilger@clusterfs.com, austin@digitalroadkill.net
Subject: Re: Shrinking ext3 directories
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    Hi Andreas :)

>> >     Any other way of doing the same without the mess?
>Not right now.  Truncating directories on a mounted filesystem is
>probably going to be a big source of strange problems.

    So I'd better go with the move-and-rename alternative...

>In the end it isn't really a problem for most people, because if
>your directory has grown big once it is likely to grow big again.

    Well, my problem arose just a couple of times, when by mistake I
extract a tarball in a directory, or by a wrong 'touch' command
(related to some bad use of 'seq'), etc... Not a problem at all, but
curiosity about this.

>With htree directories we will have to make this work at some point,

    Ok, I'll take a look then :)) Thanks for answering :)
    Ra?l
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