From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:42:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:42:46 -0500 Received: from proxyserver.epcnet.de ([62.132.156.25]:41991 "HELO viruswall.epcnet.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:41:38 -0500 Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 00:40:27 From: jd@epcnet.de To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: statfs and reiserfs Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <24719656.avixxmail@nexx.epcnet.de> In-Reply-To: <:inreplyto> X-Mailer: avixxmail v1.2.0.0 X-MAIL-FROM: Content-Type: :content; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, after a call of statfs() on my kernel-2.4.8, reiserfs returns for the fields f_files and f_ffree in the struct statfs values of -1. Other filesystems return 0 for unsupported fields in the struct statfs, e.g. smbfs. Some manpages say "Fields that are undefined for a particular file system are set to -1" (e.g. NetBSD1.4.3A from May24,1995), other say "Fields that are undefined for a particular file system are set to 0" (latest man pages from LDP) Now. What's right? who's wrong? who's right? Greetings Jochen Dolze