peter@BASKIN.UUCP (Peter Klosky) (10/23/86)
A little more investigation has shown that du() and ls() may in fact tell the truth about file size under 4.2 file systems in terms of the number of blocks used; looks like there are more fields available from stat() than in historic systems such as System V. I wondered why our 4.2 manual did not list the du() bug present in System V as a "limitation." Now I know. So stat() may tell the truth about some things, though perhaps not the whole truth. Of course, I still don't know how to cat a file by inode number under 4.2; in specific, the concept of cylinder groups has me confused. Is there just one i-list or many on a given file system?