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>      Oh, my goodness, how far afield nonsense has gotten!  Have all the
> good folks posting in this thread forgotten how directory blocks are
> allocated in UNIX?

Not forgotten, just under the impression that ZFS shrinks directories
unlike good old UFS. Apparenrly not, and yes, if thats true then the
behaviour is not surprising in the slightest.

Live and learn... ;-)

-pete. [old enough to have used 32V on a Vax, a loooong time ago...]