On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Mildred wrote:
I was thinking that perhaps caching the size of directories could bu useful. Perhaps, after du computes the size of a directory, it could write its size in its extended attributes (if the filesystem support it). Next time, du would only compare the directory atime (or mtime perhaps) with the time of the scan.
Unfortunately neither the atime nor mtime of a directory would necessarily show a change to the disk usage of the enclosed files. Consider a logfile, for example; the filesize grows continuously, but makes no change to the directory.
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