From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: bfields@fieldses.org, akpm@osdl.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] FUSE: per inode statfs
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 05:32:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051025043246.GL7992@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1EU7dX-00066t-00@dorka.pomaz.szeredi.hu>
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 09:05:35PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > > This patch makes FUSE based filesystems able to return filesystem
> > > statistics based on path. While breaks with the tradition of
> > > homogeneous statistics per _local_ filesystem, however adds useful
> > > ability to user to differentiate statistics from different _remote_
> > > filesystem served by the same userspace server.
> >
> > Wouldn't it make more sense to create more mountpoints (on demand, if
> > necessary) to handle this case?
>
> Only if
>
> a) it's possible to find out about remote mountpoints
>
> b) not prohibitively expensive to do so on each lookup
And finding the pathnames to call statfs() on is by some magic cheaper?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-25 4:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-24 17:16 [PATCH 8/8] FUSE: per inode statfs Miklos Szeredi
2005-10-24 17:25 ` J. Bruce Fields
2005-10-24 19:05 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-10-25 4:32 ` Al Viro [this message]
2005-10-25 5:51 ` Miklos Szeredi
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