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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.

  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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