On 2/22/2017 10:40 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 02/22/2017 06:34 AM, Jason Welsh wrote:
How does the directory *itself* have a size of 2.8 megs?
If you write a large number of directory entries in a directory, the
directory will grow in order to provide storage for those directory
entries. You can imagine a directory as a text file containing all of
the file names in the directory, with references to the location of
those files, if that helps you understand why the directory itself
will grow.
on many modern file systems, larger directories are stored as some sort
of B-Tree or hash tree, so there's quite a lot of indexing data in there
along with the actual directory entries.
--
john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
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