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

[Ingo Claro]

Justin M. Keyes wrote:
> 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, ...)
>   
ext3
>   
>> 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?
>   
ls -la
>
> Justin M. Keyes
>
>   

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