count reflink disk usage only once in du
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U - du
- Dominant language
- Rust
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Description
uu-du reports little to no disk usage for hard links, but double (triple or more) counts disk used by reflinks. Would be nice if reflinks were counted only once.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the uu-du implementation and its existing handling of hard links, then inspect how disk usage is calculated for reflinks. Reproduce the reported overcount with files sharing reflink data and compare it with hard-link behavior. Done means shared reflink storage is counted only once.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- cli, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100