Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 25 Sep 2004 14:10:55 -0700 | From | Jeremy Allison <> | Subject | Re: [2.6] smbfs & "du" illness |
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On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 01:21:29PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I repeat: the Linux client is apparently better off ignoring it totally. > > That makes it meaningless, Jeremy.
Currently I can't argue with you on that.
> After all, the only thing we can use it for is st_blocks, and since the > granularity is _so_ big, we're much better off looking at the file size > and guessing from that. > Tell me again: why should the Linux client look at that number? Give me > just _one_ valid reason.
Right now (Samba 3.0.7) you are correct. But the intent is to fix it going forward, so that in non-broken server implementations (yes the Samba implementation is broken right now) then it will be correct (ie. follow the intent of the spec).
Sorry, can't fix the past, I can only fix the future :-).
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