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 _______________________________________________ Ocfs2-devel mailing list Ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com https://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-devel