On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> Has there been a lot of activity in this directory?  The size of a jfs
> directory reflects the size of a table that only grows as entries are
> added.  Deleted entries are not reused.

Yes, I forgot to mention that: the .txt and the .png file in there get 
updated every few seconds. The size of the file does not change much, but 
"bwbar" is updating the files very frequently.

> The table is only truncated if
> the very last entry is removed.  If you can move everything to another
> directory and back, or rename the new one to the old one, it will fix
> it.

Yeah, I figured :-)
I just haven't done that yet in case you wanted to take an in-depth look 
on that or something...

> jfs_fsck could probably determine when this table is over-sized and
> rebuild it to be smaller.  I've thought about it before, but haven't
> gotten around to doing anything.

Doesn't hurt much, I've seen it only by accident.

Thanks,
Christian.
-- 
BOFH excuse #320:

You've been infected by the Telescoping Hubble virus.

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