linux-ext4 - [PATCH] ext3: Count journal as bsddf overhead in ext3

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Date:	Tue, 15 Oct 2013 18:45:17 -0500
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
CC:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: [PATCH] ext3: Count journal as bsddf overhead in ext3_statfs

ext4 counts journal space as bsddf overhead, but ext3 does not.

For some reason when I patched ext4 I thought I should leave
ext3 alone, but frankly it makes more sense to fix it, I think.

Otherwise we get inconsistent behavior from ext3 under ext3.ko,
and ext3 under ext4.ko, which is not at all desirable...

This is testable by xfstests shared/289, though it will need
modification because it currently special-cases ext3.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
---

diff --git a/fs/ext3/super.c b/fs/ext3/super.c
index c50c761..37fd31e 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/super.c
@@ -2825,6 +2825,10 @@ static int ext3_statfs (struct dentry * dentry, struct kstatfs * buf)
 		 * bitmap, and an inode table.
 		 */
 		overhead += ngroups * (2 + sbi->s_itb_per_group);
+
+		/* Add the journal blocks as well */
+                overhead += sbi->s_journal->j_maxlen;
+
 		sbi->s_overhead_last = overhead;
 		smp_wmb();
 		sbi->s_blocks_last = le32_to_cpu(es->s_blocks_count);

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