[ftpext] draft-peterson-streamlined-ftp-command-extensions

[Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

> DSIZ command

If a directory specified in DSIZ command contains symbolic links,
does this command calculate linked target file, or just size of a
symbolic link file itself?

Also, if a symbolic link 'foolink' which links to directory foo is
given in DSIZ command,
does server returns 550 error because it is not directory?

>DSIZ command should not consider this in its response, instead
> leaving it up to the underlying file system to determine the number
> of octets occupied by the files.

About phrase "the number of octets occupied by the files":
Some file systems(e.g. ext4) supports sparse file, and
space that those files actually occupy are sometimes much more smaller than
 'ls' shows its file size. For those files, does DSIZ return the octets occupied
by the files? I think if the user use DSIZ instead of recursive SIZE command,
they want file size normally shown by 'ls', not occupied octets in file system.

Sorry if this has been discussed already.

Best regards,

Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa