Odd directory size

[Julian Field]

At 16:14 02/10/2002, you wrote:
>This is possibly a silly question but here goes.
>The following is the two entries /var/spool for the mailscanner
>queues.
>drwxr-xr-x    2 root     mail      1220608 Oct  2 15:56 mqueue
>drwxr-xr-x    2 root     mail        24576 Oct  2 15:56 mqueue.in
>All the other directories here and a random selection of other
>directories seem to have a size of 4096.

This merely shows that at some point in history, the "mqueue" directory had
a lot of files in it.

>Is this a sign of an error or has it something to do with the
>volume of files it once held? Currently mqueue.in has 1 or 2 files
>waiting to be scanned and mqueue had about ~100 files all small.
>Also the date changes, does this reflect the last time the
>directory was used? In NT and WS2000 the date & time reflect
>when it was created. Is this a Redhat Linux feature?

Unix will always give you the last-modification time by default. It appears
that Samba is feeding Windows the creation time instead.
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