amd64/74811: [nfs] df, nfs mount, negative Avail -> 32/64-bit confusion

[Astrodog]

On 9/18/07, Astrodog <astrodog at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/18/07, Bruce Evans <brde at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 linimon at FreeBSD.org wrote:
> >
> > > Synopsis: [nfs] df, nfs mount, negative Avail -> 32/64-bit confusion
> > >
> > > State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
> > > State-Changed-By: linimon
> > > State-Changed-When: Tue Sep 18 00:35:32 UTC 2007
> > > State-Changed-Why:
> > > To submitter: is this bug still present in 6.2 or -current?  If it's a
> > > 4.x-only problem, it's time to close it, since 4.x is no longer supported.
> >
> > -current still breaks negative avail counts on the server by clamping them
> > them to 0, so the bug is less obvious on buggy clients.
> >
> > Bruce
>
> It appears that RFC 1094 calls for blocks free to be unsigned (2.2.8).
> I don't know how this could be handled, besides clamping, though.
>
> --- Harrison
>

Rather, it calls for blocks free, and blocks availible to be unsigned. D'oh.

--- Harrison