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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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. > > -- > * Pillon Matteo > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
