Re: why is the size of a directory always 1024b ?

MURALI N (murali.n@tatainfotech.com)
Wed, 23 Jun 1999 12:06:39 +0530 (IST)

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On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, David S. Miller wrote:

: I want to know if there is any significant reason why the
: size of each directory ( ext2fs) is reported as 1024b ( or a
: multiple of 1024).
:
:Because this is the "block size" of the filesystem, the directory
:space is allocated in units of this.

Why is it then that SunOS does not follow the same allocation
procedure? see the attachment for a dir listing.

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