On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 08:29:10PM +0100, David Laight wrote: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 01:51:17PM +0200, Francois Tigeot wrote: > > > > Having a quota system based on visible file sizes gives at least consistent > > results with what a regular user sees when listing files or using du(1). > > Ignoring fs metadata is unlikely to be a problem, it is only really > significant for sparse files (and maybe very small ones). > > But you do need to use the 'sparse' size for sparse files. > Many moons ago someone change unixware so that 'ls -s' reported a > value based on the file size - not the number of block used. > Really wasn't a good change at all. > NFI if it got reverted.
I'd like to know more about this issue. Are there public records somewhere ? -- Francois Tigeot
