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Re: 1.7.7: upper limit to df reported available size?


On Dec 10 10:38, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 12/10/2010 10:21 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Dec 10 17:59, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> On Dec 10 11:20, Elford,Andrew [Ontario] wrote:
> >>> $ df -T /cygdrive/f/file
> >>> Filesystem    Type   1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> >>> C:            ntfs    83886076  31717608  52168468  38% /cygdrive/c
> >>> F:            ntfs   11717703676  72036296 -5534201804   -  /cygdrive/f
> >>> L:            ntfs   6143999996 883063196 5260936800  15% /cygdrive/l
> >> [...]
> >> Hmm.  OTOH, seeing the size of your FS, I'm also wondering if we should
> >> make the algorithm a bit more foolproof for the future by manipulating
> >> the value of f_frsize if the TotalAllocationUnits returned by Windows
> >> is > sizeof (fsblkcnt_t).
> > 
> > No, scratch that.  It wouldn't work well.  I guess what we really need
> > is to redefine fsblkcnt_t to become a 64 bit type.  Oh well, this
> > requires another backward compatibility hack, just like back when we
> > switched to 64 bit off_t (Cygwin 1.5).
> 
> Let's do it at the same time as we change sigset_t and time_t to 64-bits
> (with knock-on effects to struct stat, among others).  In other words,
> all good changes, but certainly something that will take a lot of
> planning to pull off in one go.

It's not only planning it's also the good old, but hopelessly underrated
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI problem.  And we should not do it
unless we see a point at which Cygwin 1.7.x is really stable enough to
stay unchanged for a while, so we can mess up CVS HEAD.  Oh, and, I
would really appreciate if we could do it in a collaborative effort.
Patches are more telling than thousand words.


Corinna

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