>
> On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> : I want to know if there is any significant reason why the
> : size of each directory ( ext2fs) is reported as 1024b ( or a
> : multiple of 1024).
> :
> :Because this is the "block size" of the filesystem, the directory
> :space is allocated in units of this.
>
> Why is it then that SunOS does not follow the same allocation
> procedure? see the attachment for a dir listing.
It's not neccessary for compatibility and other important things that the
dir command counts directory space in the same way. It's a question of
personal taste wether you want to see the actual space used or the actual
space occupied by a directory entry. In any case the space is allocated in
blocks, so even on SunOS a directory is allocated in blocks of special
size.
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