At 09:51 AM 11/23/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >is anybody actually using this field? We don't fill it out on Unix, and I >question if it is even possible for us to fill it out.
It's an N/A on Unix unless you have a compression filesystem, and then it's kernel dependent how exactly one retrieves it. Although it is somewhat internal, it would be useful if you are trying to determine real storage consumed on a device. But if we are attempting to relate file size to a physical device, perhaps we should redefine it as physical size (e.g. compressed size, if available, then rounded to the physical block size.) Thoughts? Bill
