Re: New entry in inode/stat

From: Theodore Y. Ts'o (tytso@MIT.EDU)
Date: Fri Jul 28 2000 - 00:39:29 EDT

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       Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 01:57:03 +0200
       From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

         As I mentioned in previous mail to account quotas in
       bytes and not in blocks (needed for reiserfs) I need to
       know something like i_blocks but in bytes. So I added
       field i_bytes to inode. This field is used along with
       i_blocks and means (number of used bytes) % 512 (size
       of block used in i_blocks).
         This solution has advantage that we added only 16-bits
       to structure and we needn't to update any block oriented
       filesystem...
         Another thing needed is to propagate somehow this entry
       to struct stat so quotacheck may account bytes properly.
       Whom should I ask to propagate needed changes to libc?

    This is bogus! What's wrong with the existing i_size and st_size
    fields?

                                                    - Ted

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