Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 13:10:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 13:10:07 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:53768 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 13:09:55 -0500 Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 18:39:53 +0100 From: Jan Kara To: Petr Vandrovec Cc: Jan Kara , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Used space in bytes Message-ID: <20001114183953.F8707@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 07:31:48PM +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello. > On 9 Nov 00 at 19:18, Jan Kara wrote: > > used (I tried to contact Ulrich Drepper who should > > be right person to ask about such things (at least I was said so) but go > > no answer...). Does anybody have any better solution? > > I know about two others - really ugly ones: > > 1) fs specific ioctl() > > 2) compute needed number of bytes from st_size and st_blocks, which is > > currently possible but won't be in future > > If I may, please do not add it into stat/stat64 structure. On Netware, > computing really used space can take eons because of it has to read > allocation tables to memory to find size. It is usually about 500% > slower than retrieving all other file informations. And how do you fill in st_blocks field? Honza - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/