Hi, On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 11:49:38AM +0200, Noack, Sebastian wrote: > But independent from this aspect, a file refers in its inode to a > chunk of storage on the hard disk (or other storage medias), which > contains its data. But some files like directories don't contain data.
A directory IS like a file (in my opinion), it's an inode with data, you can also see it doing an ls -l: drwxr-xr-x 2 pmatthew users 4096 27 dic 2005 a drwxr-xr-x 2 pmatthew users 40960 22 mar 16:20 b Directory 'a' shows a size of 4096, the block size, as it contains only a few files and listing them with their associated inode, needs only a block, but 'b' contains a lot of files and so needs 10 blocks to store the inode-filename list. I don't have much knoledge of how ext2 works under the hood, just guessing from the behaviour I see from higher-level tools. Thanks for your replies. Bye. -- * Pillon Matteo -- [email protected] mailing list
