Re: Minor but irritating Reiser4 problem

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On Friday 20 June 2008, Steven Noonan wrote:
> I've been using Reiser4 on a 2.6.25 kernel and I've noticed that file sizes
> and disk space usage are incorrectly reported (impossibly large). The
> problem -seemed- to be temporarily resolved by running fsck.reiser4 on the
> filesystem or after switching to 2.6.26-rc5-mm3 (not sure which), and fsck
> reported lots of these:
>
> FSCK: obj40_repair.c: 223: obj40_stat_unix_check: Node (428111), item (21),
> [2a:c66170725f646264:10332] (stat40): wrong bytes (65536), Fixed to
> (10181).
>
> In every case, it says "wrong bytes (65536)" and corrects the number. Any
> idea which "bytes" it's referring to? It seems too small to be a file size
> (since 16-bit file size descriptors would be ridiculously small). I would
> expect -at least- a 64-bit number to represent a file size.
>
> I'd try debugging it myself, but I'm afraid of touching (and unfamiliar
> with) Reiser4's internals.
>
> - Steven

you are using compression, right?

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