linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: don't count external journal blocks as overhead

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Date:	Tue, 25 Nov 2014 16:33:02 -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: don't count external journal blocks as overhead

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 12:39:47PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> This was fixed for ext3 with:
> 
> e6d8fb3 ext3: Count internal journal as bsddf overhead in ext3_statfs
> 
> but was never fixed for ext4.
> 
> With a large external journal and no used disk blocks, df comes
> out negative without this, as journal blocks are added to the
> overhead & subtracted from used blocks unconditionally.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>

Thanks, applied.

					- Ted
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