Tim: >>> I was under the impression that the directory structure was recorded in >>> manner that's different from how the files are stored. Mike McCarty: >> You may know something that I do not. I thought everything was inodes. David L. Gehrt: > If you look in the Linux header files you can see the structure of a > directory entry in a directory. A directory is a structured file but > one treated differently by the OS because the directory bit is set in its > inode. But like other files, in some sense, it is just bits on the > platter, albeit with some structure, as such a directory IS subject to > possible fragmentation. I was thinking of the following, though I may be mixing up this file system with another type: The directory structure being stored some distance away from the files, so that one doesn't tend to fragment the other. It's been a long time since I read about the nitty-gritty of filing systems, it's not the sort of thing I do for fun. ;-\ It tends to be the sort of thing you read as you're diagnosing some condition (somewhere along the line, someone explains how it works behind the scenes). -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
