From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-09-06T22:11:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Help me clean up this method

On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Daniel Berger wrote:

> Ara.T.Howard wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> just thought i'd point out that every solution posted thus far fails in a
>> variety of ways when links are considered - in the best cases linked files
>> are counted twice or linked dirs are not checked, in the worst case
>> infinite loops occur.
>
> For a good summary of the problems with calculating the size of a directory
> (on Windows) see
> http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/12/28/336219.aspx.

indeed.

we've got a script here (dirsum) that does essentially all the things outlined
- especially checking compressed files - for monitoring data volumes.  the
problem is much trickier that one would assume.

cheers.

-a
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