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[openbeos] Re: Incorrect File Sizes
- From: "Bruno G. Albuquerque" <bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 07:50:46 -0200 (BRST)
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Scott MacMaster wrote:
> I just noticed that Be doesn't correctly calculate file sizes. I'm not sure
> of the details but I think the bug is probably in the BFS rather then
> tracker. I wonder if this has been dealt with in OpenBFS?
>
> The bug is simply, the size of attributes aren't added to the file size.
It is not a bug. Attributes are metadata, not directly part of the file
data. For instance, no filesystem adds the size of the name o the file,
the permision bits and all other possible metadata to the size of the
file.
-Bruno
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