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

MURALI N (murali.n@tatainfotech.com)
Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:21:29 +0530 (IST)

:Present scheme doesn't create lost+found. It is done by mkfs which has
:perfectly valid reason to make it larger than 1 block.

Alright. Obviously I have chosen a bad example. Here is another one.
All said, my point still remains. I still think that we have to change the
way directories are handled.

"/home/....../abc"

total 5
drwxrwxr-x 2 muralin muralin 4096 Jun 25 10:14 .
drwxr-xr-x 13 muralin muralin 1024 Jun 25 10:09 ..

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