Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 14 Nov 2000 18:39:53 +0100 | From | Jan Kara <> | Subject | Re: Used space in bytes |
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Hello.
> On 9 Nov 00 at 19:18, Jan Kara wrote: > > used (I tried to contact Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> who should > > be right person to ask about such things (at least I was said so) but go > > no answer...). Does anybody have any better solution? > > I know about two others - really ugly ones: > > 1) fs specific ioctl() > > 2) compute needed number of bytes from st_size and st_blocks, which is > > currently possible but won't be in future > > If I may, please do not add it into stat/stat64 structure. On Netware, > computing really used space can take eons because of it has to read > allocation tables to memory to find size. It is usually about 500% > slower than retrieving all other file informations. And how do you fill in st_blocks field?
Honza
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