Re: [2.6] smbfs & "du" illness

From: Jeremy Allison
Date: Sat Sep 25 2004 - 17:25:49 EST


On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 03:18:50PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Ok. Then we don't have to worry about somebody using a block count instead
> of a byte count anywhere. That simplifies things a bit, at least.

Good. Glad to make your life easier sometimes :-).

> This will inevitably get the disk usage a _bit_ wrong if the file really
> _does_ happen to use up an exact multiple of 1MB of disk, but hey, having
> a heuristic that is sometimes a bit wrong is better than having one that
> is always very wrong.

Yep. My bug, sorry. Should be fixed from now on.

> This is totally untested, btw. For obvious reasons.

Ah, you just wait until we've finished making smb a tier 1
unix to unix filesystem. You'll be using it every day :-) :-).

Jeremy.
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