>
> 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.
>
Because their length field contains the actual size of the directory
file data (just like a regular file). Linux contains what was actually
allocated. In both cases, if an allocation unit was 1024 bytes, both
directory entries use 1024 bytes.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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