diff --git a/doc/forum/Lots_of_4k_symlinks/comment_4_be12d26936b3502445e880be997b8877._comment b/doc/forum/Lots_of_4k_symlinks/comment_4_be12d26936b3502445e880be997b8877._comment new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8737c0c1b4 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Lots_of_4k_symlinks/comment_4_be12d26936b3502445e880be997b8877._comment @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="CandyAngel" + avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/15c0aade8bec5bf004f939dd73cf9ed8" + subject="comment 4" + date="2017-05-10T09:21:34Z" + content=""" +> And I doubt CandyAngel was counting only the sizes of symlinks and not git repos or at least directory inodes to hold all the symlinks.) + +In that repository, it is only top level directories (no sub directories) and each directory in it only has symlinks (up to 8000 of them). Directories are **mkdir $(uuidgen -r)**, hence the wildcard for du. + +It would be including the directory size to hold all the inodes, but it definitely *isn't counting .git* as this annex spans 3 drives with 6TB of content so far. Well, 6 drives because of \"numcopies 2\" :P + +I will calculate this a different way and only count symlinks, when I have access to it again. +"""]]