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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD auto directory shrink?
Date: 10 Jun 1997 15:02:58 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <5njkj7$e8$1@stargate.stdio.com>,
risner@stdio.com writes:
> I read that in 4.4 code, directories would automatically shrink
> during a file creation if they contained excess slack of unused slots.
> Is this no longer valid? Was this never integrated?
>
> I had a 6 meg directory with no files and created a single file.
> It did not go away...
Works on my bench. I *believe* that only trailing empty slots in
the directory file will be lost (ie, the directory file itself
is truncated), so if you create 100 files then remove the first
99, creating a single file will not change the size of the
directory.
> Risner
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