diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 53ab4b5536..8b1829c9b5 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -124,6 +124,9 @@ all::
 # Define USE_STDEV below if you want git to care about the underlying device
 # change being considered an inode change from the update-index perspective.
 #
+# Define NO_ST_BLOCKS_IN_STRUCT_STAT if your platform does not have st_blocks
+# field that counts the on-disk footprint in 512-byte blocks.
+#
 # Define ASCIIDOC8 if you want to format documentation with AsciiDoc 8
 #
 # Define DOCBOOK_XSL_172 if you want to format man pages with DocBook XSL v1.72.
@@ -749,6 +752,7 @@ ifneq (,$(findstring MINGW,$(uname_S)))
 	NO_SVN_TESTS = YesPlease
 	NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER = YesPlease
 	NO_POSIX_ONLY_PROGRAMS = YesPlease
+	NO_ST_BLOCKS_IN_STRUCT_STAT = YesPlease
 	COMPAT_CFLAGS += -D__USE_MINGW_ACCESS -DNOGDI -Icompat
 	COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DSNPRINTF_SIZE_CORR=1
 	COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DSTRIP_EXTENSION=\".exe\"
@@ -863,6 +867,9 @@ endif
 ifdef NO_D_INO_IN_DIRENT
 	BASIC_CFLAGS += -DNO_D_INO_IN_DIRENT
 endif
+ifdef NO_ST_BLOCKS_IN_STRUCT_STAT
+	BASIC_CFLAGS += -DNO_ST_BLOCKS_IN_STRUCT_STAT
+endif
 ifdef NO_C99_FORMAT
 	BASIC_CFLAGS += -DNO_C99_FORMAT
 endif
diff --git a/builtin-count-objects.c b/builtin-count-objects.c
index 91b5487478..a1c9eb41cb 100644
--- a/builtin-count-objects.c
+++ b/builtin-count-objects.c
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ static void count_objects(DIR *d, char *path, int len, int verbose,
 			if (lstat(path, &st) || !S_ISREG(st.st_mode))
 				bad = 1;
 			else
-				(*loose_size) += xsize_t(st.st_blocks);
+				(*loose_size) += xsize_t(on_disk_bytes(st));
 		}
 		if (bad) {
 			if (verbose) {
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ int cmd_count_objects(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 			num_pack++;
 		}
 		printf("count: %lu\n", loose);
-		printf("size: %lu\n", loose_size / 2);
+		printf("size: %lu\n", loose_size / 1024);
 		printf("in-pack: %lu\n", packed);
 		printf("packs: %lu\n", num_pack);
 		printf("prune-packable: %lu\n", packed_loose);
diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c
index 772cad510d..ccfa2a0a3d 100644
--- a/compat/mingw.c
+++ b/compat/mingw.c
@@ -31,11 +31,6 @@ static inline time_t filetime_to_time_t(const FILETIME *ft)
 	return (time_t)winTime;
 }
 
-static inline size_t size_to_blocks(size_t s)
-{
-	return (s+511)/512;
-}
-
 extern int _getdrive( void );
 /* We keep the do_lstat code in a separate function to avoid recursion.
  * When a path ends with a slash, the stat will fail with ENOENT. In
@@ -57,10 +52,10 @@ static int do_lstat(const char *file_name, struct stat *buf)
 		buf->st_ino = 0;
 		buf->st_gid = 0;
 		buf->st_uid = 0;
+		buf->st_nlink = 1;
 		buf->st_mode = fMode;
 		buf->st_size = fdata.nFileSizeLow; /* Can't use nFileSizeHigh, since it's not a stat64 */
-		buf->st_blocks = size_to_blocks(buf->st_size);
-		buf->st_dev = _getdrive() - 1;
+		buf->st_dev = buf->st_rdev = (_getdrive() - 1);
 		buf->st_atime = filetime_to_time_t(&(fdata.ftLastAccessTime));
 		buf->st_mtime = filetime_to_time_t(&(fdata.ftLastWriteTime));
 		buf->st_ctime = filetime_to_time_t(&(fdata.ftCreationTime));
@@ -94,7 +89,7 @@ static int do_lstat(const char *file_name, struct stat *buf)
  * complete. Note that Git stat()s are redirected to mingw_lstat()
  * too, since Windows doesn't really handle symlinks that well.
  */
-int mingw_lstat(const char *file_name, struct mingw_stat *buf)
+int mingw_lstat(const char *file_name, struct stat *buf)
 {
 	int namelen;
 	static char alt_name[PATH_MAX];
@@ -122,8 +117,7 @@ int mingw_lstat(const char *file_name, struct mingw_stat *buf)
 }
 
 #undef fstat
-#undef stat
-int mingw_fstat(int fd, struct mingw_stat *buf)
+int mingw_fstat(int fd, struct stat *buf)
 {
 	HANDLE fh = (HANDLE)_get_osfhandle(fd);
 	BY_HANDLE_FILE_INFORMATION fdata;
@@ -133,22 +127,8 @@ int mingw_fstat(int fd, struct mingw_stat *buf)
 		return -1;
 	}
 	/* direct non-file handles to MS's fstat() */
-	if (GetFileType(fh) != FILE_TYPE_DISK) {
-		struct stat st;
-		if (fstat(fd, &st))
-			return -1;
-		buf->st_ino = st.st_ino;
-		buf->st_gid = st.st_gid;
-		buf->st_uid = st.st_uid;
-		buf->st_mode = st.st_mode;
-		buf->st_size = st.st_size;
-		buf->st_blocks = size_to_blocks(buf->st_size);
-		buf->st_dev = st.st_dev;
-		buf->st_atime = st.st_atime;
-		buf->st_mtime = st.st_mtime;
-		buf->st_ctime = st.st_ctime;
-		return 0;
-	}
+	if (GetFileType(fh) != FILE_TYPE_DISK)
+		return fstat(fd, buf);
 
 	if (GetFileInformationByHandle(fh, &fdata)) {
 		int fMode = S_IREAD;
@@ -162,10 +142,10 @@ int mingw_fstat(int fd, struct mingw_stat *buf)
 		buf->st_ino = 0;
 		buf->st_gid = 0;
 		buf->st_uid = 0;
+		buf->st_nlink = 1;
 		buf->st_mode = fMode;
 		buf->st_size = fdata.nFileSizeLow; /* Can't use nFileSizeHigh, since it's not a stat64 */
-		buf->st_blocks = size_to_blocks(buf->st_size);
-		buf->st_dev = _getdrive() - 1;
+		buf->st_dev = buf->st_rdev = (_getdrive() - 1);
 		buf->st_atime = filetime_to_time_t(&(fdata.ftLastAccessTime));
 		buf->st_mtime = filetime_to_time_t(&(fdata.ftLastWriteTime));
 		buf->st_ctime = filetime_to_time_t(&(fdata.ftCreationTime));
diff --git a/compat/mingw.h b/compat/mingw.h
index a52e657c51..4f275cb8e6 100644
--- a/compat/mingw.h
+++ b/compat/mingw.h
@@ -162,22 +162,12 @@ int mingw_rename(const char*, const char*);
 
 /* Use mingw_lstat() instead of lstat()/stat() and
  * mingw_fstat() instead of fstat() on Windows.
- * struct stat is redefined because it lacks the st_blocks member.
  */
-struct mingw_stat {
-	unsigned st_mode;
-	time_t st_mtime, st_atime, st_ctime;
-	unsigned st_dev, st_ino, st_uid, st_gid;
-	size_t st_size;
-	size_t st_blocks;
-};
-int mingw_lstat(const char *file_name, struct mingw_stat *buf);
-int mingw_fstat(int fd, struct mingw_stat *buf);
+int mingw_lstat(const char *file_name, struct stat *buf);
+int mingw_fstat(int fd, struct stat *buf);
 #define fstat mingw_fstat
 #define lstat mingw_lstat
-#define stat mingw_stat
-static inline int mingw_stat(const char *file_name, struct mingw_stat *buf)
-{ return mingw_lstat(file_name, buf); }
+#define stat(x,y) mingw_lstat(x,y)
 
 int mingw_utime(const char *file_name, const struct utimbuf *times);
 #define utime mingw_utime
diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
index cf89cdf459..1b40dbd535 100644
--- a/git-compat-util.h
+++ b/git-compat-util.h
@@ -192,6 +192,12 @@ extern int git_munmap(void *start, size_t length);
 
 #endif /* NO_MMAP */
 
+#ifdef NO_ST_BLOCKS_IN_STRUCT_STAT
+#define on_disk_bytes(st) ((st).st_size)
+#else
+#define on_disk_bytes(st) ((st).st_blocks * 512)
+#endif
+
 #define DEFAULT_PACKED_GIT_LIMIT \
 	((1024L * 1024L) * (sizeof(void*) >= 8 ? 8192 : 256))