Some versions of tar assume that files with st_blocks == 0 do not
contain any data and will skip reading them entirely. See also
commit 9206c561554c ("ext4: return non-zero st_blocks for inline data").

Signed-off-by: John Haxby <john.ha...@oracle.com>
---
 fs/ocfs2/file.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/file.c b/fs/ocfs2/file.c
index 0e5b451..d631279 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/file.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/file.c
@@ -1302,6 +1302,14 @@ int ocfs2_getattr(struct vfsmount *mnt,
        }
 
        generic_fillattr(inode, stat);
+       /*
+        * If there is inline data in the inode, the inode will normally not
+        * have data blocks allocated (it may have an external xattr block).
+        * Report at least one sector for such files, so tools like tar, rsync,
+        * others don't incorrectly think the file is completely sparse.
+        */
+       if (unlikely(OCFS2_I(inode)->ip_dyn_features & OCFS2_INLINE_DATA_FL))
+               stat->blocks += (stat->size + 511)>>9;
 
        /* We set the blksize from the cluster size for performance */
        stat->blksize = osb->s_clustersize;
-- 
2.5.0


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