[openbeos] Re: Incorrect File Sizes
- From: Charlie Clark <charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 17:31:09 +0100
On 2002-12-04 at 17:27:44 [+0100], openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> 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.
What about a limit on attribute size, though? The guys at SiegfriedSoft
said it caused a real problem and took a long time to find out how much
space a file occupies. They wrote their own code for doing this as they
said the standard stuff was way too slow: Figures takes up to 10 minutes
longer to start a 2 GB backup, apparently. Doesn't stuffing the attributes
with Francois pr0n slow the fs down?
Charlie
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