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).
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