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Yil · 08-15-2010, 01:58 PM

ArtCore7: ioFTPD, by default, currently only shows the size of the files in the immediate subdirectory (you can disable that via the 'No_SubDir_Sizing' option for performance reasons if needed). It does not have a way to show you the size of everything beneath a directory in a directory listing. You can of course request that for individual dirs via the "site size" command but depending on the size it may take a while to run...

A small trick when using "sorted" type dirs (i.e. a dir with lots of ioFTPD symlinks in them) is to use the -L argument to list/stat like "list -alL" which will force the server to open the target of the link and display the size of it just as if were a real directory (i.e. the size of the files in it). Doesn't really address the problem, but is useful once in a while

I should point out that I have a desire to enable showing the entire treesize in directory listings which is what I expect you want to do. I've worked out a couple of methods of doing it. However, my preferred method requires lazy disk writes of size information so it wouldn't impact performance but this means it also needs to be verified from time to time in case the server crashed before it was written.

My plan was to actually try to do this a while ago but then the whole switch to OpenSSL and stability issues came up so I haven't wanted to touch the internal dir caching stuff since it's tricky stuff. The last big update was in v7.1 when I taught the server about NTFS junctions/symlinks so the cache wouldn't get dirty when dirs were manipulated through junctions/symlinks...

Expect ioFTPD to support this in the future, but not until at least after 7.6 gets out and looks stable.

08-15-2010, 01:58 PM
Yil Too much time... Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 1,194	ArtCore7: ioFTPD, by default, currently only shows the size of the files in the immediate subdirectory (you can disable that via the 'No_SubDir_Sizing' option for performance reasons if needed). It does not have a way to show you the size of everything beneath a directory in a directory listing. You can of course request that for individual dirs via the "site size" command but depending on the size it may take a while to run... A small trick when using "sorted" type dirs (i.e. a dir with lots of ioFTPD symlinks in them) is to use the -L argument to list/stat like "list -alL" which will force the server to open the target of the link and display the size of it just as if were a real directory (i.e. the size of the files in it). Doesn't really address the problem, but is useful once in a while I should point out that I have a desire to enable showing the entire treesize in directory listings which is what I expect you want to do. I've worked out a couple of methods of doing it. However, my preferred method requires lazy disk writes of size information so it wouldn't impact performance but this means it also needs to be verified from time to time in case the server crashed before it was written. My plan was to actually try to do this a while ago but then the whole switch to OpenSSL and stability issues came up so I haven't wanted to touch the internal dir caching stuff since it's tricky stuff. The last big update was in v7.1 when I taught the server about NTFS junctions/symlinks so the cache wouldn't get dirty when dirs were manipulated through junctions/symlinks... Expect ioFTPD to support this in the future, but not until at least after 7.6 gets out and looks stable.