Re: minix fs problem in 2.6

From: Tom Oehser
Date: Tue Aug 10 2004 - 22:02:39 EST



P.S., I have only tested on ramdisks and loop filesystems-

Maybe somehow it is confusing 4K blocks with 1K blocks ?

-Tom

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Tom Oehser wrote:

> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 22:54:00 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Tom Oehser <tom@xxxxxxxx>
> To: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: minix fs problem in 2.6
>
>
> The minix fs has something different in kernel 2.6 such that "du" fails badly.
>
> du is returning quantities that are approximately 1/4th of what is correct.
>
> It was working fine in 2.4.
>
> I'm not sure if anyone but me still cares...
>
> Tomsrtbt creates filesystem sizes on ramdisks throughout its build that are
> calculated from du results to build things just big enough without waste.
>
> It seems to not be buildable on 2.6.
>
> -Tom
>
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