Re: nfs and LBD support (2TB+)

[Stephan van Hienen]

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Trond Myklebust wrote:

> Yep... There is a slight problem with the way glibc has decided to
> implement the statvfs function when interacting with 2.6.x kernels...

<..>

> This was not a problem in Linux-2.4.x, 'cos glibc would simply emulate a
> value for f_frsize by setting it to f_bsize.
> However for 2.6.x kernels, glibc grabs a value of f_frsize that the
> kernel gives it. So if that value differs from the bsize (and allowing
> f_frsize != f_bsize is the whole point of passing a value for f_frsize
> to glibc in the first place), you get wierd discrepancies like the
> above.

and is there a fix ?
(it looks like it's working ok, but still i would like to see the actual 
free space/usage)
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