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>> > Yes, because CRAM does it that way, and maybe zisofs does it too: >> >> Zisofs doesn't (H. Peter Anvin should know as he wrote it :-) ). >> >> Statfs should return the size of the filesystem, not the amount of >> data the filesystem represents. In this respect the behaviour of >> Squashfs and Zisofs is correct. >> >> This is analogous to performing stat on a gzipped file. The stat >> returns the size of the compressed file, not the uncompressed size. > > A better analogy is it is like statting a sparse file on, say, an ext3 > filesystem. stat (ls -s) and statfs report the amount of storage consumed. > Too bad. Would have been a good indicator of how much space you need to copy an entire disc to disk, rather than running and waiting for du -s to complete. So cramfs would need fixing. Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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