linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix overhead calculations in ext4

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Message-ID: <20121108153431.GA766@thunk.org>
Date:	Thu, 8 Nov 2012 10:34:31 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix overhead calculations in ext4_stats, again

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 11:59:02AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> "overhead" was a write-only variable in this function after commit
> 952fc18e; we set it to 0 for minixdf, or to sbi->s_overhead if !minixdf,
> but never read it again after that.
> 
> We need to use it, not sbi->s_overhead, when subtracting out overhead
> for f_blocks, or we get the wrong answer for minixdf.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>

Thanks, applied.

					- Ted
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