Empty directory 60M in size; used to contain 1.7 million files

[Peter Schuller]

Hello,

Observe:

hyperion# ls -la 
total 61634
drwxr-xr-x  2 xxx yyy  63047168 Nov 18 21:33 .
drwxr-xr-x  6 xxx yyy         512 Oct  8 16:39 ..
hyperion# find .
.
hyperion# 

The one special circumstance is that the directory previously contained 1.7 
million small files, that are now deleted. This is on FreeBSD 6.1 with UFS2 + 
softupdates. No snapshots exist of the filesystem.

1.7 million files may be extreme, but I don't see why an empty directory would 
ever consume more than one inode?

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