22 Feb
2017
22 Feb
'17
8:27 p.m.
On 23/02/17 06:04, John R Pierce wrote:
on many modern file systems, larger directories are stored as some sort of B-Tree or hash tree, so there's quite a lot of indexing data in there along with the actual directory entries
So I gather this depends on the file system.
On my ext4 file system, I have a directory that has >2TB and the directory entry itself only shows:
$ ls -ld Stuff drwxrwxr-x 146 akk akk 36864 Feb 21 21:18 Stuff/
$ du -bs Stuff 2093651427987 Stuff
Not sure what to take away from that!