Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Jun 1999 22:25:38 +0100 (GMT) | From | Riley Williams <> | Subject | Re: why is the size of a directory always 1024b ? |
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Hi Ted.
>> Actually, it isn't - it is deliberately 12 BLOCKS. True, this >> is 12k on a 1k block filesystem, but it is 48k on a 4k block >> filesystem. I'm not sure whether this was intentional or a bug in >> the mklost+found code.
> It was deliberately chosen to be 12 blocks, but arguably 48k is > more space than is really necessary. Probably not a disaster in > the grand scheme of things, but I will think about changing this > in future revisions of mke2fs.
Probably a more sensible rule would be to say 16k or 1 block, whichever is smaller. Note that on 8k file systems, 12k is not an integral number of blocks, but 16k is, hence the change.
Related to this, can I pass on a question I was recently asked: How does Linux deal with a corrupted partition where the lost+found entry is itself corrupted? Does it even detect that?
Best wishes from Riley.
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