Re: xfs_fsr for directories?

[Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 01:23:54AM +0200, Bernhard Erdmann wrote:

> xfs_fsr cleans up the files, but who cares about directories?

plenty of people

> How does XFS handle directories when files are deleted? Do they
> shrink as well?

yes

to *try* to make a directory better if not don't mind the inode
changing do somehting like (can't be done whilst it's being accessed
though)

         cd parent/of/said/dir
         mv dir old-dir
         mkdir dir
         mv old-dir/* dir
         rmdir old-dir

which will create a new directory and move all entries over, with some
luck this will help create the directory in fewer fragments (compared
to having it grow slowly over time)