Re: stat64 for over 2TB file returned invalid st_blocks

[Andreas Dilger]

On Dec 02, 2005  22:18 +0900, Takashi Sato wrote:
> I also found another problem on generic quota code.  In
> dquot_transfer(), the file usage is calculated from i_blocks via
> inode_get_bytes().  If the file is over 2TB, the change of usage is
> less than expected.
> 
> To solve this problem, I think inode.i_blocks should be 8 byte.

Actually, it should probably be "sector_t", because it isn't really
possible to have a file with more blocks than the size of the block
device.  This avoids memory overhead for small systems that have no
need for it in a very highly-used struct.  It may be for some network
filesystems that support gigantic non-sparse files they would need to
enable CONFIG_LBD in order to get support for this.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.

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