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Also known as a directory.

• inigyou 2mo ago
  If a directory was contiguous on disk.
  • Joker_vD 2mo ago
    Most files aren't contiguous on a disk either, you know. Which makes inability to punch wholes in the middle of the files without having to read/write huge chunks of data quite annoying, especially when you write a linker or an archiver. Reserving enough space for the header is quite non-trivial.
    • inigyou 2mo ago
      Filesystems try fairly hard to make files mostly contiguous on disk, but they don't do the same to directories.