From: Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: "Jeremy Allison" <jra@samba.org>,
"YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明" <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>,
samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6] smbfs & "du" illness
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 14:10:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040925211055.GC580@jeremy1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0409251317410.2317@ppc970.osdl.org>
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 :-).
Jeremy.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-25 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-17 20:54 [2.6] smbfs & "du" illness Samuel Thibault
2004-09-25 16:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-25 17:11 ` Jeremy Allison
2004-09-25 17:14 ` Jeremy Allison
2004-09-25 17:41 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
[not found] ` <20040925174406.GP580@jeremy1>
2004-09-25 18:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-25 18:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-25 18:20 ` Jeremy Allison
2004-09-25 18:25 ` Samuel Thibault
2004-09-25 18:32 ` Jeremy Allison
2004-09-25 19:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-25 19:22 ` Jeremy Allison
2004-09-25 19:27 ` Samuel Thibault
2004-09-25 18:29 ` Jeremy Allison
2004-09-25 18:31 ` Jeremy Allison
2004-09-25 19:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-25 19:25 ` Jeremy Allison
2004-09-25 19:52 ` Jeremy Allison
2004-09-25 20:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-25 21:10 ` Jeremy Allison [this message]
2004-09-25 21:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-25 22:08 ` Jeremy Allison
2004-09-25 22:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-25 22:23 ` Jeremy Allison
2004-09-25 22:40 ` Samuel Thibault
2004-09-26 0:41 ` Theodore Ts'o
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