Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 25 Sep 2004 11:12:04 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [2.6] smbfs & "du" illness |
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On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Methinks you've been looking too much at what MS does over the wire, and > that has made you think that it makes total sense to send random numbers > over the wire. Maybe so - maybe it's how you have to think if you make a > samba server. But if so, just _say_ so, instead of making arguments that > make no sense.
Btw, if you want to send bytes instead of blocks, I don't care. The Linux client can easily do
blocks = bytes >> 9;
and I'll be perfectly happy. But if the "bytes" count you send has no actual real-life meaning (ie it didn't actually come from the underlying filesystem at all), then don't bother. The client might as well do
blocks = (filesize + 511) >> 9;
if that's what the server is (badly) mangling.
Linus
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