From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
Cc: Steven Van Acker <deepstar@ulyssis.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: ext2 directory size bug (?)
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 17:57:04 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001202175704.B269@metastasis.f00f.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011300453200.31229-100000@ace.ulyssis.org> <Pine.LNX.3.95.1001130081717.723A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1001130081717.723A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>; from root@chaos.analogic.com on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 08:24:02AM -0500
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 08:24:02AM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
This is actually a feature. The directory does not get truncated.
Arguably directories could be truncated when objects towards the end
are removed; I believe UFS under Solaris might do this?
An even better heuristic I like would allow repacking of a directory
and truncation if you could safely half the size -- but I suspect
locking issues might be hideous here.
--cw
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-02 5:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-30 4:17 ext2 directory size bug (?) Steven Van Acker
2000-11-30 7:20 ` Andreas Dilger
2000-11-30 13:24 ` Richard B. Johnson
2000-12-02 4:57 ` Chris Wedgwood [this message]
2000-12-02 5:14 ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-02 5:30 ` Chris Wedgwood
2000-12-02 5:42 ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-02 9:14 ` Kai Henningsen
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