Return a non-zero st_blocks to userspace for statfs() and friends. Some versions of tar will assume that files with st_blocks == 0 do not contain any data and will skip reading them entirely. Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index cbfe13b..e832a6a 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -4532,6 +4532,15 @@ int ext4_getattr(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct dentry *dentry, generic_fillattr(inode, stat); /* + * If there is inline data in the inode, the inode will normally not + * have data blocks allocated (it may have an external xattr block). + * Report at least one sector for such files, so tools like tar, rsync, + * others doen't incorrectly think the file is completely sparse. + */ + if (unlikely(ext4_has_inline_data(inode))) + stat->blocks += (stat->size + 511) >> 9; + + /* * We can't update i_blocks if the block allocation is delayed * otherwise in the case of system crash before the real block * allocation is done, we will have i_blocks inconsistent with @@ -4542,9 +4551,9 @@ int ext4_getattr(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct dentry *dentry, * blocks for this file. */ delalloc_blocks = EXT4_C2B(EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb), - EXT4_I(inode)->i_reserved_data_blocks); + EXT4_I(inode)->i_reserved_data_blocks); + stat->blocks += delalloc_blocks << (inode->i_sb->s_blocksize_bits - 9); - stat->blocks += (delalloc_blocks << inode->i_sb->s_blocksize_bits)>>9; return 0; } -- 1.7.3.4 -- 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