Re: df and "Value too large for defined data type"

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 11:59:36AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> the 2.4 statfs interface is 32 bits; I think that until you upgrade the
> server to 2.6, and (as Christoph tells me) you'll also need a very
> recent glibc to take advantage of it.
> 
> On a large filesystem, xfs easily wraps around the ints in the statfs
> structure.

Well, in the case of free inodes we might be a bit over-eager and should
just return some random lower value.  Not that it really matters with
dynamically allocated inodes..