Re: ext2fs enhacement/fix [re: shrinking directories]

David Ford (david@kalifornia.com)
Sat, 18 Jul 1998 14:00:42 -0700 (PDT)


On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Jan Kara wrote:
> But keeping the directory sorted will cost you probably more than you gain.
> And you have completely forgotten the dchache. So the used files will be
> in it and so they won't be looked up on the disk..

dcache can't maintain 80 gigs of news spool in memory.

another idea instead of physically shrinking. sort the structure, placing
all in use information at the top and implementing a 'last used' marker.

-d

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