Directory compression

Mike McNally m5 at lynx.uucp
Thu Aug 16 09:03:16 AEST 1990


Does 4.3BSD (or anything else) dynamically compress directories when
entries are removed?  If so, how does the system deal with
consistency?  Like if I'm reading while something else is unlinking and
the directory is being compressed, how does the world go on living?
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Mike McNally                                    Lynx Real-Time Systems
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