On Dec 13, 2006 16:02 +0100, Valerie Clement wrote: > Alex Tomas wrote: > >ah, it's simple. you're looking at superblock counters. > >we don't update them every time. this was changed years > >ago. try the same with regular ext3 > > Yes, sorry, I didn't know that and I didn't notice that before. > And the per-group counters are right. It would be good, IMHO, to update the superblock counters periodically anyways (e.g. statfs already has done the calculation). Otherwise, e2fsck on a mounted-but-idle system always complains about them being incorrect. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html