Steve Dickson wrote:

> Here is 2.4  patch that allows nfs_statfs() to detect values that are
> too large to deal with (i.e. > 32bit on a 32bit machine).  So instead
> of returning garbage (as it does today), it returns all -1 which
> commands (like df) know how interpret. For example:
> df without the patch
>
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> pdl585-1:/           7108754432 -147573952589283246080 33966574080 
> 101% /mnt/dl585-1
>
> df with the patch:
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> pdl585-1:/                   1         1         1   0% /mnt/dl585-1
>
> Which should be fairly obvious that something went wrong.....
>
> Comments?
>
> Maybe this issue has already been address on the list (I know Olaf
> recently sent out a 2.6 patch) but if it hasn't.... maybe this is 
> something
> Marcelo would be interested in?
>
This is an update to the previous patch that 1) always sets f_namelen
to a valid value since apps could be depending on it and 2) f_files
and f_ffree are set to -1 on any an overflows.

SteveD.