Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 01:21:02 +0200 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas) Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, d@delphij.net, Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org>, Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtree should not output size if the file is not a regular file Message-ID: <86zjrleg4h.fsf@nine.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20130909230456.03A8A97129@rebar.astron.com> (Christos Zoulas's message of "Mon, 9 Sep 2013 19:04:55 -0400") References: <20130909230456.03A8A97129@rebar.astron.com>
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Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com> writes: > Xin Li <delphij@delphij.net> writes: > > I think it doesn't make sense to emit size information for non-regular > > files like directories, symlinks, etc. although both our and NetBSD's > > mtree would emit it. > We could change that, but what's the harm? Roll a large tarball (e.g. a complete FreeBSD installation). Copy it to different machines with different filesystems. Untar and run mtree on the result. Notice that you get different output on each machine because they report different sizes for directories; one might report the actual on-disk size (which might vary depending on past contents) while the other might report the number of entries. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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