On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 05:05:30PM +0800, Romit wrote: > 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? Neither, it's just the way things are. In practice this sort of thing isn't a real problem for most systems, and fixing it can be a real pain to get right, so historically most Unix filesystems have not bothered to try to compact/compress directories. ext2/3 is no different. One could easily argue that this would be a nice feature to add, and perhaps some day we might add it. But it's pretty low on the priority list. - Ted _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
