Hi everyone, (reposting; sorry if it got duplicated)

I recently changed all the ext2 partitions on crappy old linux box to
shining jfs. Running Debian with homebuilt jfsutils 1.1.14 on Linux
2.6.31. Overall I'm satisfied with its behaviour, except that one
thing. The problem is the session backup directory of a certain daemon
where all the files in it are updated periodically, or to be precise,
create-new + delete-old + rename. As a result, that directory got
bloated to over 10MB in just one week of uptime. I'm surprised and
searched over web, and realized that it is indeed an expected
behaviour of current jfs implementation. That directory is meant to be
a failsafe for crashes so that it must reside on real filesystem, i.e.
it's pointless to move it to tmpfs.

The question is, is there any plan to fix it, that I can count on? I
see some posts dated several years ago mentioning that particular
problem, and it says there were no progress for another years... Just
some workaround or even dirty gross hack with certain drawbacks will
help much. Well, I know removing all the nodes and then repopulating
back does get rid of bloated index, but I think it's not very safe to
do that while the daemon keep running... and no, shutting down the
daemon is a bit painful. Also I believe that it's impossible to do it
safely on the root directory anyway.

Thanks in advance,

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