Ext3 users - Sep 2003 - RE: BIG Bug on Linux EXT3 file system, or "/bin/ls" problem?? Pl ease Help!!!

Hi, Marc,

 Thanks for your help!

 a "ls -alFs" command shows the difference, Theodore Ts'o talked
about it at
https://listman.redhat.com/archives/ext3-users/2003-January/msg00008.html.
Both File system and "/bin/ls" contains no bugs, my knowledge databse
in my
mind got lots of ""Bugs" instead. :)

vista104 /0 > ls -alF 
total 211233264
drwxrwxr-t    5 root     wheel        4096 Sep 17 23:35 ./
drwxr-xr-x   27 root     root         4096 Sep 18 10:10 ../
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     wheel           4 May 16 19:55 .final -> ../0/
-rw-r--r--    1 andy     wheel          26 Aug 20 09:08 ando.idx
-rw-r--r--    1 andy     wheel    193750787024 Sep 16 00:05 ando103.idx.2
-rw-r--r--    1 andy     wheel    185336663408 Sep 15 07:55 ando104.idx.2
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Jun 25 14:32 export/
drwxrwxr-t    2 root     wheel       16384 May 16 19:41 lost+found/
drwxrwxrwt    2 root     wheel        4096 Sep 18 04:02 tmp/
vista104 /0 > ls -alFs
total 211233264
      4 drwxrwxr-t    5 root     wheel        4096 Sep 17 23:35 ./
      4 drwxr-xr-x   27 root     root         4096 Sep 18 10:10 ../
      0 lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     wheel           4 May 16 19:55 .final ->
../0/
      4 -rw-r--r--    1 andy     wheel          26 Aug 20 09:08 ando.idx
30063460 -rw-r--r--    1 andy     wheel    193750787024 Sep 16 00:05
ando103.idx.2
181169768 -rw-r--r--    1 andy     wheel    185336663408 Sep 15 07:55
ando104.idx.2
      4 drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Jun 25 14:32 export/
     16 drwxrwxr-t    2 root     wheel       16384 May 16 19:41 lost+found/
      4 drwxrwxrwt   2 root     wheel        4096 Sep 18 04:02 tmp/

 Could you tell me where can I find more introduction on sparse file? and
How it can be used to save disk space? and the impact on file system
read/write performance? Thanks.

 I also looked it up that "SCNR" means "Sorry, Could Not
Resist" at
http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?p=dict&String=exact&Acronym=SCNR.

 
 what a shame of me! I don't know a lot useful stuff. *SCNR* ;)


 --Guolin Cheng


-----Original Message-----
From: Marc-Christian Petersen [mailto:m.c.p@gmx.net]
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 1:18 AM
To: Guolin Cheng; ext3-users@redhat.com
Subject: Re: BIG Bug on Linux EXT3 file system, or "/bin/ls" problem??
Please Help!!!


On Thursday 18 September 2003 10:11, Alex Bligh wrote:
> --On 18 September 2003 00:35 -0700 Guolin Cheng <guolin@alexa.com>
wrote:
> > There are two big files above, and the total size is bigger then
> > underlying file system size!! What a shame!
what a shame that you don't know sparse files *scnr* ;-)

-- 
ciao, Marc