From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Rick Hohensee <humbubba@smarty.smart.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Df command in Plan9?
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0010201707050.24294-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> from "Alexander Viro" at Oct 20, 0 05:44:23 pm
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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 20:37:47 -0400
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> On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Russ Cox wrote:
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> > Please don't tell me that du /dev/sda1 would
> > do something other than report the disk size
> > under Linux.
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df, BTW, is one of those design flaws of unix that is so
obvious nobody sees it. A directory has a size. It is the
size of it's contents, not the size of the "file" containing
the dirnames and so on. The size of a directory, it's "du-size",
is something the filesystem should keep track of.

I had a bag of code hung off the side of Linux for "Dyndufs",
but then there was a severe ripple in the chrono-synclastic
infindibulum, and I got a job.

I wonder what X, GNOME, Enlightenment, Perl and so on would
look like if the developers of them were constantly seeing the
size results of thier actions.

Rick Hohensee