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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: Shrinking ext3 directories
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 02:01:41 +0200
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On Saturday 22 June 2002 22:59, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> ... The directory started at 385024 bytes (38.5 bytes/entry 
> and grew a block after about 300 steady state remove/create cycles.   Another 
> block was added around 500 cycles.  It's up to 1100 cycles now, and hasn't 
> added another block.  It sort of looks like the expansion is getting slower.  
> This is with dx_hack_hash.  I'll let it run overnight to get a feeling of how 
> urgent the steady-state problem is.

And now it's up to 5500 cycles, and still hasn't added another block.
Empirically, we're seeing a very steep falloff in the expansion rate,
though I'll readily admit the testing is far from sufficient.

-- 
Daniel
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