[plug] directory size listing

[Anthony Wilson]

On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 11:50:33PM +0800, Rennie wrote:
> "ls -la" was listing each directory as being 4.0K no matter what was in it. Is 
> this just a Rieser thing or is that the same for all file systems?

I believe this is because of block sizes?  On a system with a 4.0k block
size you will have one block (ie 4k) preallocated for each directory's
metadata.  For directories with many entries you should see sizes in
multiples of 4k.