Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:14:11 +0200 | From | Janos Farkas <> | Subject | Re: why is the size of a directory always 1024b ? |
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On 1999-06-25 at 12:12:40, MURALI N wrote: > Okay, leave things be. What i suggest is that during fsck runs, > holes in the directory entries can be processed.
That's a fine idea; but *why* would you want to show a *different* value than the allocated blocks to a directory? What would you get if it would show (for example) how many entries are in there? You can tell that pretty easily with ls itself..
Think about it, now at least you *know* how much space a directory takes, and at least *know* what takes up enormous space, and why access in that directory is slow, so you can fix it.
Janos
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