Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > 2. unmount filesystem and run e2fsck -D on it every so often. > > > > Every so often? That phrase roused my interest. Wouldn't exactly > > once be enough? > > Yes, as long as nobody ever creates a massive number of entries in a > directory that is not going to be rmdir'd again after you did the > e2fsck -D... > > So, "every so often"...
But I think it doesn't actually work to shrink directories. :-(
> > I think there are two issues under discussion. One is if dir_index
> > has been applied. For that once would be enough.
>
> Yes. But dir_index is about locating files fast for open() or
> stat() in massive directories, not shrinking a very sparse one.
Right. That is why I said there were two issues under discussion. :-)
> > # fsck -D /dev/v1/test
> > fsck from util-linux 2.25.2
> > e2fsck 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014)
> > /dev/mapper/v1-test: clean, 13/25688 files, 9121/102400 blocks
> >
> > This produced no change in that directory size. It does not appear to
> > me that e2fsck -D compacts existing empty directories.
>
> Hmm, you could try "e2fsck -D", not "fsck -D".
Of course we know that fsck simply passed through to the appropriate
underlying driver fsck, e2fsck in this case. The output says say.
But this is trivially easy for me to do too so here it is. (It really
is the same.)
root@havoc:~# lvcreate -L100M -ntest v1
Logical volume "test" created
root@havoc:~# mkfs -t ext4 /dev/v1/test
mke2fs 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014)
Creating filesystem with 102400 1k blocks and 25688 inodes
Filesystem UUID: 47bf1774-75b9-4783-958c-7cbcab2e219b
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
8193, 24577, 40961, 57345, 73729
Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (4096 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
root@havoc:~# mount /dev/v1/test /mnt
root@havoc:~# mkdir -p /mnt/junk/junk
root@havoc:~# cd /mnt/junk/junk
root@havoc:/mnt/junk/junk# for i in $(seq -w 1 10000); do touch $i;done
root@havoc:/mnt/junk/junk# for i in $(seq -w 1 10000); do rm -f $i;done
root@havoc:/mnt/junk/junk# cd
root@havoc:~# \ls -ld /mnt/junk/junk
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 227328 Apr 15 14:35 /mnt/junk/junk
root@havoc:~# umount /mnt
root@havoc:~# e2fsck -D /dev/v1/test
e2fsck 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014)
/dev/v1/test: clean, 13/25688 files, 9119/102400 blocks
root@havoc:~# mount /dev/v1/test /mnt
root@havoc:~# \ls -ld /mnt/junk/junk
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 227328 Apr 15 14:35 /mnt/junk/junk
Using 'e2fsck -D' by itself isn't shrinking the size of the empty directory.
> If e2fsck also refuses to do anything, try "e2fsck -D -f" to force
> it to check a clean filesystem.
Ah! That was the secret!
root@havoc:~# umount /mnt
root@havoc:~# e2fsck -D -f /dev/v1/test
e2fsck 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 3A: Optimizing directories
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/v1/test: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
/dev/v1/test: 14/25688 files (0.0% non-contiguous), 8899/102400 blocks
root@havoc:~# \ls -ld /mnt/junk/junk
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Apr 15 14:35 /mnt/junk/junk
It was necessary to -f force the fsck. So 'e2fsck -D -f' is required.
Bob
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