diff --git a/7/README.md b/7/README.md index 4dec201..64a1fad 100644 --- a/7/README.md +++ b/7/README.md @@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ in any POSIX shell, *if* the user wasn't as stupid... That's why I wrote a bash script that actually creates the whole filesystem from the input-file. -It does so (by default) in `/tmp`. The sizes for the files are only allocated so that `du` shows the filesize, no write operations are taking place. +It does so (by default) in `/tmp`. The sizes for the files are only allocated, so that `du` shows the filesize. +No actual write operations are taking place, which makes recreating the file structure pretty fast. ### I am stupid The problem is, that (even empty) directories have a size, which also increases with every file and subdirectory in it.