February 17, 2009

Why doesn’t the file system have a function that tells you the number of files in a directory?

February 17, 2009 Feb 17, 2009 02/17/09

Raymond Chen

There are any number of bits of information you might want to query from the file system, such as the number of files in a directory or the total size of the files in a directory. Why doesn't the file system keep track of these things? Well, of course, one answer is that it certainly couldn't keep track of every possible fragment of ...

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Why doesn’t the file system have a function that tells you the number of files in a directory?