Re: Who needs these silly statfs changes...

From: Kris Kennaway <kris_at_obsecurity.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 00:54:18 -0800
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 06:44:25PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 06:04:00PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >...my sparc machine reports that my i386 nfs server has 15 exabytes of
> >free space!
> >
> >enigma# df -k
> >Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used             Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> >rot13:/mnt2  56595176 54032286 18014398507517260     0%    /rot13/mnt2
> 
> 18014398507517260 = 2^54 - 1964724.  and 2^54KB == 2^64 bytes.  Is it
> possible that rot13:/mnt2 has negative free space?  (ie it's into the
> 8-10% reserved area).

Yes, that's precisely what it is..the bug is either in df or the
kernel (I suspect the latter, i.e. something in the nfs code).

Kris
Received on Wed Nov 12 2003 - 23:54:20 UTC

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