I am flabbergasted by the definition of the inode number:
An inode is a data structure on a traditional Unix-style file system
such as UFS or ext3. An inode stores basic information about a regular
file, directory, or other file system object. Source
So there must be a logical order in every inode number. Can you conclude somet...
Jonathan Leffler's comment in the question "How can I find the Size of some specified files?" is thought-provoking. I will break it into parts for analysis.
-- files are stored on pages;
you normally end up with more space being
used than that calculation gives
because a 1 byte file (often) occupies
one page (of maybe 512...
I have recently encountered an embedded system with IDE drives that are FAT32 but have >4gb files. It appears to do this by setting the file size in the 32byte directory entry to how many bytes the final cluster uses - instead of being the actual file size. This allows the the files to have arbitrary FAT chains. The downside is the only ...
Hello, all
I need to track all writes to files in order to have synchronized version of files on different place (server or just other directory, not considerable).
Let it:
all files located in same directory
feel free to create some system files (e.g. SomeFileName.Ext~temp-data)
no one have concurrent access to synced directory; no...
From performance point of view: How it's better to store uploaded files on disk?
One folder and huge number of images? or create logically subfolders?
OS: Linux
FS: ext3
Thanks!
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ls -l
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 885 2010-07-08 13:55 /etc/backup-number-of-files*
-rwxrwxr-x+ 1 levchuk Users 1067 2010-08-30 14:37 /etc/backup-running-time*
Please notice the + on the 2nd line.
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