Certain apps misbehave by creating an unmanageable amount of tiny files.
This is hard to debug, but it slows down the file system considerably.
In the proposed new regime, diskusage would be working almost entirely the way it does now, that is walk the directory tree, but instead of adding file sizes, it would be adding up just 1 for every file or directory.
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Certain apps misbehave by creating an unmanageable amount of tiny files.
This is hard to debug, but it slows down the file system considerably.
In the proposed new regime,
diskusagewould be working almost entirely the way it does now, that is walk the directory tree, but instead of adding file sizes, it would be adding up just 1 for every file or directory.