From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 30 2:14:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5223137B422 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 02:14:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 30 Apr 2001 10:13:56 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 10:13:56 +0100 From: David Malone To: Valentin Nechayev Cc: Ted Faber , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tail Message-ID: <20010430101356.A62928@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <20010429222205.A29058@praxis.lunabase.org> <20010430110352.A646@iv.nn.kiev.ua> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010430110352.A646@iv.nn.kiev.ua>; from netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua on Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:03:52AM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:03:52AM +0300, Valentin Nechayev wrote: > Can you please prove nesessarity of such behavior, as really useful examples > of cat/tail of directory, or an example of needed compatibility? We have used tail here on (large) directories to find the last few entries and then delete them (using unlink) in the correct order so that you can get the kernel to shrink the directory quickly to speed up operations on it. This has arisen several times on news servers using inn's traditional storage. I'm sure other people have used standard tools on directories for other reasons. To prevent people from doing so is just an inconvienence. David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message