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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.

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