On Fri, 10 Jul 1998 14:56:12 +0200, Jakob Borg <jb@k2.lund.se> said:
> If a directory is created and filled with, say, 500 files, it will
> grow to 6K in size. It will retain this size when all files in it are
> unlinked.
> Does it ever shrink in size or will it retain it's 6 blocks until
> it's unlinked? If so, is this just another form of preallocation, in
> case we would that many files again in the same directory?
Right now, directories never shrink. Shrinking will certainly be
part of the work to implement b-tree support in ext2fs.
--Stephen
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