On Monday 04 June 2001 22:41, Bryan Henderson wrote:
> I'm more confused than ever about the i_blocks (filesize divided by
> 512) field. I note that in both the inode and the stat() result, the
> filesize in bytes exists, and presumably always has. So why would
> anyone ever want to know separately how many 512 byte units of data
> are in the file?
Files can have holes.
> FS code appears to explicitly allow for a
> filesystem driver to denominate i_blocks in other units, but any
> other unit would appear to break the stat () interface.
This can be fixed with a multiply.
--
Daniel
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