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Date:      Mon, 14 Feb 2022 09:46:03 +1100
From:      raf <freebsd@raf.org>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Definition of struct stat st_size for directories
Message-ID:  <YgmKK23ng0aqpJhL@raf.org>
In-Reply-To: <YgkvesuwegqERLw0@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>
References:  <YgczTldqDaKNUwEp@raf.org> <YgkvesuwegqERLw0@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>

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On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 05:19:06PM +0100, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:

> raf:
> 
> > The FreeBSD stat(2) manpage only defines st_size for
> > regular files and symlinks. But I've noticed that for
> > directories, it seems to always be the number of
> > entries within the directory (including . and ..). I'm
> > seeing this with 13.0-RELEASE and zfs.
> 
> Here on UFS it's some multiple of 512, e.g.
> 
> $ stat -f '%N %z' / ~
> / 1024
> /home/naddy 3584
> 
> -- 
> Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de

Thanks. That's very helpful to know.

cheers,
raf




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