Directory size expansion and contraction in ext3

[Romit <romit@pop3.myrealbox.com>]

Hello all,
             I was running the following script in the directory $(HOME)/temp

while true
do
     touch $((i = i + 1))
done

I found at the end when the inode limit was reached, the size of the temp 
directory had increased from 4096 to 2162688.

Once i removed all the files in directory temp. I expected the directory 
size to go back to 4096. But its still staying at 2162688. Is this a 
feature or a bug?


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Regards,
-Romit



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