From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, meyering@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Difference in statvfs(2) block count with ext2 and very recent Linux 3.2.0 kernels
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:40:48 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EC3F5A0.3040404@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111116164356.GT2626@amd.home.annexia.org>
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On 11/16/11 10:43 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:33:19AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
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>> On 11/16/11 3:54 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We do some automated testing of the kernel and ext2/3/4 filesystems,
>>> and noticed that the block count returned by statvfs(2) for plain
>>> *ext2* filesystems has changed with the latest 3.2.0rc1 kernel.
>>>
>>> This is probably just because of more accurate block accounting, but I
>>> just wanted to check that it isn't a bug.
>>>
>>> This posting contains the numbers and a reproducer:
>>>
>>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2011-November/msg00051.html
>>>
>>> Rich.
>>>
>>
>> Note that it is a plain *ext2* filesystem run through the *ext4* driver,
>> in Fedora,
>
> Correct! We're using CONFIG_EXT4_USE_FOR_EXT23=y.
>
>> and it was tracked down to commit f975d6bcc7a698a10cc755115e27d3612dcfe322
>> ext4: teach ext4_statfs() to deal with clusters if bigalloc is enabled
>> according to the above post...
>
> Well, that's what I thought looked likely. However I didn't bisect
> this, so it could be another commit to blame ...
Ok, I will take a look, thanks.
- -Eric
> Rich.
>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-16 9:54 Difference in statvfs(2) block count with ext2 and very recent Linux 3.2.0 kernels Richard W.M. Jones
2011-11-16 16:33 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-11-16 16:43 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2011-11-16 17:40 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
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