[pacman-dev] libalpm fails on a filesystem with a large blocksize

[Astro Xe]

Thanks! Changing rsize/wsize removes the disk space check error.


For posterity, including myself:

Indeed, from what I could gather from the archived discussions:
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0310.1/0392.html
(and the subsequent message by Linus)
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/LVM-and-VxVM/definition-of-f-bsize-vs-f-frsize/td-p/4761159
it seems that f_bsize originally meant "high-level block size for efficient I/O"
which explains why it's linked to rsize/wsize.


I was about to suggest f_frsize ("fragment size") as an alternative, but
a quick test reveals that it has the same value as f_bsize, on that very same
machine/NFS; which confirms Linus' suggestion for "optimal block size everywhere"
in the discussion linked above.
BTW I have checked the "one file per block" rule by successfully creating more
than 10000 files from that same client/NFS, so it seems that this result is
somehow allowed by the abstraction.


Thanks again