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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: statfs() / statvfs() syscall ballsup...
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 18:16:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16261.56894.8109.858323@charged.uio.no> (raw)


Hi,

  We appear to have a problem with the new statfs interface
in 2.6.0...

The problem is that as far as userland is concerned, 'struct statfs'
reports f_blocks, f_bfree,... in units of the "optimal transfer size":
f_bsize (backwards compatibility).

OTOH 'struct statvfs' reports the same values in units of the fragment
size (the blocksize of the underlying filesyste): f_frsize. (says
Single User Spec v2)

Both are apparently supposed to syscall down via sys_statfs()...

Question: how we're supposed to reconcile the two cases for something
like NFS, where these 2 values are supposed to differ?

Note that f_bsize is usually larger than f_frsize, hence conversions
from the former to the latter are subject to rounding errors...

Cheers,
  Trond

             reply	other threads:[~2003-10-09 22:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-09 22:16 Trond Myklebust [this message]
2003-10-09 22:26 ` statfs() / statvfs() syscall ballsup Linus Torvalds
2003-10-09 23:19   ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-10-10  0:22     ` viro
2003-10-10  4:49       ` Jamie Lokier
2003-10-10  5:26         ` Trond Myklebust
2003-10-10 12:37           ` Jamie Lokier
2003-10-10 13:46             ` Trond Myklebust
2003-10-10 14:35               ` Jamie Lokier
2003-10-10 15:32                 ` Misc NFSv4 (was Re: statfs() / statvfs() syscall ballsup...) Trond Myklebust
2003-10-10 15:53                   ` Jamie Lokier
2003-10-10 16:07                     ` Trond Myklebust
2003-10-10 15:55                   ` Michael Shuey
2003-10-10 16:20                     ` Trond Myklebust
2003-10-10 16:45                     ` J. Bruce Fields
2003-10-10 14:39               ` statfs() / statvfs() syscall ballsup Jamie Lokier
2003-10-09 23:31   ` Trond Myklebust
2003-10-10 12:27   ` Joel Becker
2003-10-10 14:59     ` Linus Torvalds
2003-10-10 15:27       ` Joel Becker
2003-10-10 16:00         ` Linus Torvalds
2003-10-10 16:26           ` Joel Becker
2003-10-10 16:50             ` Linus Torvalds
2003-10-10 17:33               ` Joel Becker
2003-10-10 17:51                 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-10-10 18:13                   ` Joel Becker
2003-10-10 16:27           ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-10-10 16:33           ` Chris Friesen
2003-10-10 17:04             ` Linus Torvalds
2003-10-10 17:07               ` Linus Torvalds
2003-10-10 17:21                 ` Joel Becker
2003-10-10 16:01         ` Jamie Lokier
2003-10-10 16:33           ` Joel Becker
2003-10-10 16:58             ` Chris Friesen
2003-10-10 17:05               ` Trond Myklebust
2003-10-10 17:20               ` Joel Becker
2003-10-10 17:33                 ` Chris Friesen
2003-10-10 17:40                 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-10-10 17:54                   ` Trond Myklebust
2003-10-10 18:05                     ` Linus Torvalds
2003-10-10 20:40                       ` Trond Myklebust
2003-10-10 21:09                         ` Linus Torvalds
2003-10-10 22:17                           ` Trond Myklebust
2003-10-11  2:53                     ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-11  3:47                       ` Trond Myklebust
2003-10-10 18:05                   ` Joel Becker
2003-10-10 18:31                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-10-10 20:33                     ` Helge Hafting
2003-10-10 20:07             ` Jamie Lokier
2003-10-12 15:31             ` Greg Stark
2003-10-12 16:13               ` Linus Torvalds
2003-10-12 22:09                 ` Greg Stark
2003-10-13  8:45                   ` Helge Hafting
2003-10-15 13:25                     ` Ingo Oeser
2003-10-15 15:03                       ` Greg Stark
2003-10-15 18:37                         ` Helge Hafting
2003-10-16 10:29                         ` Ingo Oeser
2003-10-16 14:02                           ` Greg Stark
2003-10-21 11:47                             ` Ingo Oeser
2003-10-10 18:20           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-10-10 18:36             ` Linus Torvalds
2003-10-10 19:03               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-10-09 23:16 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-10-09 23:24   ` Linus Torvalds

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