-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Deppner <ted@jasmine.psyber.com>
To: Chad C Giffin <typo@t-net.org>; linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
<linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: Thursday, July 16, 1998 1:27 PM
Subject: Re: ext2fs enhacement/fix [re: shrinking directories]
>On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 12:33:50AM -0400, Chad C Giffin wrote:
>> Although it is really not a problem for most that directory files do not
>> shrink on removal of directory entries, it still is a problem for some
and
>> should not be ignored IMO.
>>
>> I'd like to propose a solution that is not too complicated.
>
>[acceptable solution (if properly implimented) deleted]
>
>I'd like to pose the question, Is this really necessary?
>
>On your home machine I can't imagine more than 1mb on the average system
being
>wasted to this excess.
>
>On a server, I can't imagine _wanting_ to recover space (under any scheme)
>when most servers have a cyclic nature, and even if space were saved for a
>period of time, there was a time (hours or days ago) when the directory
NEEDED
>to be that large.
>
>And on busy servers, where you might have 20-30 mb tied up this way (a news
>machine just after expires), within 12 to 24 hours they'll be full again.
>
>In any case, I always have 100's of extra MBs of drive space laying around.
>Even if I could recover 50mb for 12 hours or a week, it I wouldn't care,
it's
>such a minor thing.
>
>--
>Ted Deppner
>ted@psyber.com
>http://www.psyber.com
>
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