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