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Le 08/01/2011 04:13, Larry Hall (Cygwin) a =C3=A9crit :
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> On 1/7/2011 9:39 PM, Steven Hartland wrote:
>=20
> <snip>
>=20
>> Here it takes about 2 - 5mins for what ever is causing the 0 size after a
>> find to start to happen. Prior to that after the find all dirs show
>> 8192 for
>> size in an ls.
>=20
> Ah, that's interesting.  I see no such time-lag here.
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<snip>
it seems to depend on the number of the entries the directory has.

Cyrille@nowhere ~/somewhere/cvs
v2$ ls -ld
drwxrwsr-x+ 1 Cyrille         None       0 Feb 15  2007 .

Cyrille@nowhere ~/somewhere/cvs
v2$ ll
total 128
drwxrwsr-x+ 1 Cyrille None 8192 Sep 10 20:00 CVSROOT
drwxrwsr-x+ 1 Cyrille None 4096 Jun 18  2010 exploitation
drwxrwsr-x+ 1 Cyrille None    0 Oct 12  2006 test

Cyrille@nowhere ~/somewhere/cvs
v2$ for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0; do for j in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0; do
echo $i$j; done; done | xargs mkdir

Cyrille@nowhere ~/somewhere/cvs
v2$ ls -ld
drwxrwsr-x+ 1 Cyrille None 16384 Jan  8 15:02 .

Cyrille@nowhere ~/somewhere/cvs
v2$ for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0; do for j in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0; do
echo $i$j; done; done | xargs rmdir

Cyrille@nowhere ~/somewhere/cvs
v2$ ls -ld
drwxrwsr-x+ 1 Cyrille None 16384 Jan  8 15:03 .

reboot

Cyrille@nowhere ~/somewhere/cvs
$ ls -ld
drwxrwsr-x+ 1 Cyrille None 0 Jan  8 15:03 .

Cyrille@nowhere ~/somewhere/cvs
$ find . > /dev/null

Cyrille@nowhere ~/somewhere/cvs
$ ls -ld
drwxrwsr-x+ 1 Cyrille None 16384 Jan  8 15:03 .

IMHO, the first time the directory size is read, the size used by
FindFirstFile/FindNextFile (or something like that :-) is zero'ed,
then the directory size is updated while the directory is traversed.
also the directory size doesn't seem to shrink on entry removal,
even after a reboot.

Regards,

Cyrille Lefevre
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