Mail Archives: cygwin/2010/12/12/07:12:33
On Dec 10 10:38, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 12/10/2010 10:21 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Dec 10 17:59, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> On Dec 10 11:20, Elford,Andrew [Ontario] wrote:
> >>> $ df -T /cygdrive/f/file
> >>> Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> >>> C: ntfs 83886076 31717608 52168468 38% /cygdrive/c
> >>> F: ntfs 11717703676 72036296 -5534201804 - /cygdrive/f
> >>> L: ntfs 6143999996 883063196 5260936800 15% /cygdrive/l
> >> [...]
> >> Hmm. OTOH, seeing the size of your FS, I'm also wondering if we should
> >> make the algorithm a bit more foolproof for the future by manipulating
> >> the value of f_frsize if the TotalAllocationUnits returned by Windows
> >> is > sizeof (fsblkcnt_t).
> >
> > No, scratch that. It wouldn't work well. I guess what we really need
> > is to redefine fsblkcnt_t to become a 64 bit type. Oh well, this
> > requires another backward compatibility hack, just like back when we
> > switched to 64 bit off_t (Cygwin 1.5).
>
> Let's do it at the same time as we change sigset_t and time_t to 64-bits
> (with knock-on effects to struct stat, among others). In other words,
> all good changes, but certainly something that will take a lot of
> planning to pull off in one go.
It's not only planning it's also the good old, but hopelessly underrated
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI problem. And we should not do it
unless we see a point at which Cygwin 1.7.x is really stable enough to
stay unchanged for a while, so we can mess up CVS HEAD. Oh, and, I
would really appreciate if we could do it in a collaborative effort.
Patches are more telling than thousand words.
Corinna
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