22 May
2003
22 May
'03
8:03 p.m.
On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 11:59:22AM +1000, Alan McLachlan wrote:
A write to a file will change the file size attribute in the directory entry, which will of course change the mod time on the directory itself.
Nope. There is no file size attribute in directory entries; WAFL is a UNIXish file system, wherein file attributes are all stored in an inode, and the directory entry merely refers to the inode.
Remember, in WAFL all metadata lives in files. That includes directories.
That's not unique to WAFL - UNIX file systems have always done that, and FAT and NTFS do that as well.