Re: [PATCH-BK-2.6] NTFS fix "du" and "stat" output (NTFS 2.1.6).

[David Sanders <linux@sandersweb.net>]

On Wednesday 21 January 2004 01:24 pm, David Sanders wrote:
> On Monday 19 January 2004 09:15 am, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> > This fixes the erroneous "du" and "stat" output people reported on
> > ntfs partitions containing compressed directories.
>
> Thanks for the quick patch.  There are still problems with the
> reported disk usage.  I use as an example the file win.ini.  With the
> 2.4.24 kernel I get the following results:
> $ ls -l win.ini
> -r--r-----    1 root     staff         399 Jan 27  2003 win.ini
>
> $ stat win.ini
>   File: "win.ini"
>   Size: 399       	Blocks: 2          IO Block: 1024   Regular File
> Device: 305h/773d	Inode: 1023        Links: 1
> Access: (0440/-r--r-----)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (   50/  
> staff) Access: Thu Jan 15 15:34:09 2004
> Modify: Mon Jan 27 18:54:00 2003
> Change: Sun Sep 22 07:23:44 2002
>
> $ du -h win.ini
> 1.0k	win.ini
>
> But, under the 2.6.1 kernel:
> $ ls -l win.ini
> -r-xr-x---    1 root     staff         399 Jan 27  2003 win.ini
>
> $ stat win.ini
>   File: "win.ini"
>   Size: 399       	Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   Regular File
> Device: 305h/773d	Inode: 1023        Links: 1
> Access: (0550/-r-xr-x---)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (   50/  
> staff) Access: Thu Jan 15 15:34:09 2004
> Modify: Mon Jan 27 18:54:00 2003
> Change: Mon Jan 27 18:54:00 2003
>
> $ du -h win.ini
> 0	win.ini
>
> Now, surely the 2.4.24 kernel is reporting the more accurate disk
> usage since with 2.6.1 it reports 0 blocks (vice 2).
>
> Thanks in advance,
Also, chkdsk in winnt4 reports the cluster size in 512 bytes.  The ntfs 
driver seems to think the size is 4096 bytes (or 1024 bytes in 2.4 
kernel). Thanks,
-- 
David Sanders
linux@sandersweb.net