[Leaplist] directory "size", does it matter?

[Justin M. Keyes]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Ingo Claro <miclaro at netred.cl> wrote:
> I know that a directory is just another file and it stores information
> regarding it's contents, so how does this directory size affect performance?

depends on the file system (ext4, reiser, zfs, ...)

> for example if I have a directory with many file movements (create/delete)
> over time I've got this:
> drwxr-x---    2 miclaro   miclaro     9678848 Jan 20 20:53 tmp

what command gave you that output?


Justin M. Keyes

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