From: DervishD <raul@pleyades.net>
To: adilger@clusterfs.com, austin@digitalroadkill.net
Cc: raul@pleyades.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Shrinking ext3 directories
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 21:39:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D0F8C54.mailH8O37ZVW5@viadomus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020618163947.GO22427@clusterfs.com>
Hi Andreas :)
>> > Any other way of doing the same without the mess?
>Not right now. Truncating directories on a mounted filesystem is
>probably going to be a big source of strange problems.
So I'd better go with the move-and-rename alternative...
>In the end it isn't really a problem for most people, because if
>your directory has grown big once it is likely to grow big again.
Well, my problem arose just a couple of times, when by mistake I
extract a tarball in a directory, or by a wrong 'touch' command
(related to some bad use of 'seq'), etc... Not a problem at all, but
curiosity about this.
>With htree directories we will have to make this work at some point,
Ok, I'll take a look then :)) Thanks for answering :)
Raúl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-18 19:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-18 16:08 DervishD
2002-06-18 16:10 ` Austin Gonyou
2002-06-18 16:39 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-06-18 19:39 ` DervishD [this message]
2002-06-18 19:34 ` DervishD
2002-06-18 16:21 ` Padraig Brady
2002-06-18 16:54 ` David Lang
2002-06-18 19:35 ` DervishD
2002-06-18 21:50 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-06-18 22:18 ` Alexander Viro
2002-06-19 9:38 ` DervishD
2002-06-19 10:37 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-06-19 17:03 ` [Ext2-devel] " Christopher Li
2002-06-19 20:10 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-06-19 20:34 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-06-19 20:13 ` Andrew Morton
2002-06-19 22:43 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-06-19 23:54 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-06-21 3:28 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-06-21 7:03 ` Helge Hafting
2002-06-21 14:02 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-06-24 7:12 ` Helge Hafting
2002-06-21 16:23 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-06-21 15:06 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-07-04 4:48 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-04 14:15 ` jlnance
2002-07-05 2:11 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-06-22 5:53 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-06-22 20:59 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-06-23 0:01 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-06-23 7:57 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-06-19 22:49 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-06-20 0:24 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-06-20 9:34 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-06-20 10:18 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-06-20 13:45 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-06-21 14:54 ` Ville Herva
2002-06-21 15:08 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-06-21 15:38 ` Ville Herva
2002-06-21 16:15 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-06-21 18:44 ` Ville Herva
2002-06-20 16:26 ` Bill Davidsen
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