[openbeos] Re: Incorrect File Sizes
- From: "Scott MacMaster" <zqxh@xxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 09:53:23 -0500
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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