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SubjectRe: why is the size of a directory always 1024b ?
   Date: 	Fri, 25 Jun 1999 00:54:40 +0100 (GMT)
From: Riley Williams <rhw@MemAlpha.CX>

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.

- Ted

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