STAT_ST_BLOCKSIZE on HP-UX
Herb Lewis
herb at sgi.com
Mon Dec 9 15:30:01 GMT 2002
DEV_BSIZE is also correct for IRIX
Michael Steffens wrote:
>
> jra at dp.samba.org wrote:
> >>It remained on 8192 for HP-UX (which is the number given
> >>by st_blksize) and which seems to be just as wrong there.
> >>The correct unit of st_blocks is 1024, instead.
> >
> >
> > I got this value from the HPUX team (who site near me in
> > Cupertino) but I'll check again....
>
> I first deduced the value by correlating st_blocks with
> st_size, and the output of "du -k", respectively.
>
> Searched documentation about the correct value and found
> an old support call stating
>
> "Anyway, st_blocks is measured in DEV_BSIZE units (sys/param.h),
> which on HPUX is 1k."
>
> Maybe this is the answer also for other platforms? At least
> on Linux and Solaris /usr/include/sys/param.h also contained
> correct values (512). On AIX it is in /usr/include/sys/dir.h.
>
> Michael
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