Re: very large directories

From: willy@thepuffingroup.com
Date: Tue Feb 29 2000 - 16:45:25 EST


On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 09:37:11AM -0600, Jesse Pollard wrote:
> I will admit that I don't know if Linux compacts the directory
> on each delete. If it doesn't then delete time is limited only by the
> time to delete each file. If it does, then it is limited by the number
> of file entries being compacted (copy time is longer than delete time).

ext2 never compacts directories.

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