Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:52:41 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: setantae <setantae@submonkey.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Directory entries won't shrink Message-ID: <61135.1003420361@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 Oct 2001 10:45:20 EST." <20011018104520.A97943@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 10:45:20 EST, Dan Nelson wrote: > They will shrink, but it will only shrink when a file is added to the > directory, and it will only truncate the directory (so if one of your > 64 files is in the last block of the directory, it'll never shrink). > You can sort of work around this by renaming each file, which will move > it to the first open slot in the directory. Okay, so if this is a split spool directory for an MTA, I'm screwed. :-) Thanks, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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