FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: Incorrect File Sizes

["Frank D. Engel, Jr." <fde101@xxxxxxxxx>]

I doesn't wash cars either, so is that a bug too?

--- Scott MacMaster <zqxh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> It makes sense that the file size doesn't include the size of the
> name of a
> file or other meta data that the file system adds.  However, users
> add
> attributes to files.  Attributes can become big.  Users are concerned
> about
> disk space and how much they are using.  Users (me, for example) want
> to
> know how much space their attributes use.  Be doesn't display that
> information.  It doesn't do something a user wants.  Therefore it is
> a bug.
> 
> 
> Scott MacMaster
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruno G. Albuquerque" <bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 4:50 AM
> Subject: [openbeos] Re: Incorrect File Sizes
> 
> 
> > 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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Frank D. Engel, Jr.

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