Hello All,
[Really sorry about this and I hope you're not getting fed up of
multiple copies of this message but the list on oss.oracle.com really
doesn't like me.]
Some programs, and programmers, assume that if a file is occupying
zero blocks (st_blocks == 0) then it contains no data and there's no
point in reading it. Posix doesn't actually say anything about this,
but it seems to be something a lot of people expect. Indeed, ext4,
btrfs and ntfs-3d all seem to behave this way so that no one[1] has
any unpleasant surprises.
This patch is almost exactly the same as commit 9206c561554c ("ext4:
return non-zero st_blocks for inline data") although I couldn't bring
myself to include the typo in the comment :)
jch
[resend because rejected by list the first time.]
[1] tar, I'm looking at you, but you're not the only one.
John Haxby (1):
ocfs2: return non-zero st_blocks for inline data
fs/ocfs2/file.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
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