AW: AW: [gentoo-user] [OT] Why directories aren't files?

Hi,

interesting. You are right. But so it would be (maybe not the most usable but) the most consequentially solution to dump the data of the directory on read().

Regards
Sebastian Noack



> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Matteo Pillon [mailto:matteo.pillon@×××××.com]
> Gesendet: Montag, 18. September 2006 13:50
> An: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> Betreff: Re: AW: [gentoo-user] [OT] Why directories aren't files?
>
> 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.
>
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