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

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

[Noack, Sebastian]

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@gmail.com]
> Gesendet: Montag, 18. September 2006 13:50
> An: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> 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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