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

["Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Scott MacMaster" <zqxh@xxxxxxx> 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.

That's not a bug, that's wanted. As a user you would be very confused 
if the file sizes would always change, or just be different on BeOS, or 
when you copy it to another volume, etc.
You can't do that, it would make a horrible user experience (hey, even 
Windows doesn't do this for NTFS).
No, it would be very nice to know how much space a file needs on disk, 
including the attributes - unfortunately, BFS don't have a single 
counter for that, so that you'd need to iterate over all attributes to 
calculate their size. It would be very simple to do, but I want to have 
that functionality both in Tracker and BFS, but optionally, not instead 
of the real file size.

Adios...
   Axel.