On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
..
> How does ReiserFS report a directory's size? Check out the following
> output from ls:
> 
> drwxrwxr-x    3       ftp     ftp     54      Jul 11 20:42    ftp
> drwx------    24      jijo    jijo    1716    Jul 20 02:08    jijo
> 
> I wonder why the hell the directory jijo, which has a total disk usage
> significantly smaller than that of ftp, has 1716 as its size. I never
..

The directory size is related to the number of FILES in it, not the SIZE
of those files.


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