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

[Astrodog]

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