Re: ext2fs: do directories ever shrink?

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
12 Jul 1998 23:56:37 +0200


Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl> writes:

> yes, FreeBSD does shrink directories. I just put 40000 files in a
> directory. The directory grew to 500kb (b.t.w. the directory in
> FreeBSD stays as fast as a small one because something like a btree is
> used, so there is no slowdown in large directories).

Not correct, UFS just uses a linear list like ext2.

-Andi

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