[CentOS] question about directory size in linux..

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!