From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-bk0-f42.google.com ([209.85.214.42]:36245 "EHLO mail-bk0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753188Ab2L0REB (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Dec 2012 12:04:01 -0500 Received: by mail-bk0-f42.google.com with SMTP id ji2so4383984bkc.15 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2012 09:04:00 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50DC7F80.4060409@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 18:04:00 +0100 From: Goffredo Baroncelli Reply-To: kreijack@inwind.it MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brendan Hide CC: linux-btrfs Mailing list , Chris Mason Subject: Re: btrfs df confusion References: <50DC3807.9080605@swiftspirit.co.za> In-Reply-To: <50DC3807.9080605@swiftspirit.co.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 12/27/2012 12:59 PM, Brendan Hide wrote: > Hi Hi, > > I've made some updates on the wiki and I'd like a technical review for > correctness. This particular topic is already confusing - some > unnecessary sarcasm made it even more so: > https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/FAQ#Why_does_df_show_incorrect_free_space_for_my_RAID_volume.3F I posted some patches in order to address this issue. However these aren't integrated (yet). At the end I think that I reached a general consensus about the wording. A general description is here [1]. The patch related to man page is here [2], which can help about the wording. I hope that it will help your work. BR G.Baroncelli > > > Due to the terms "used" and "allocated" in the wiki, viric in #btrfs > made the good suggestion that we could adjust the show and df output > with more intuitive language: > > Before I git a patch together, please let me know if there are any good > reasons why we wouldn't want to make such a change. > > (13:31:29) viric: zatricky: "devid ... used" are allocated data, while > "FS bytes used" is the sum of used bytes, isn't it? > (13:33:28) zatricky: viric: correct > (13:33:52) viric: zatricky: maybe the devid lines could be changed > s/used/allocated/ > (13:34:37) zatricky: viric: that's a good idea - would make it more > intuitive > (13:35:29) viric: the same way, 'btrfs fi df' could change > s/total/allocated > ^ GMT+2 ;) > > Thanks > [1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.btrfs/21071 [2] http://markmail.org/thread/nol2gcjky4cxndhv#query:+page:1+mid:xqnyqp7slb7rrach+state:results -- gpg @keyserver.linux.it: Goffredo Baroncelli (kreijackATinwind.it> Key fingerprint BBF5 1610 0B64 DAC6 5F7D 17B2 0EDA 9B37 8B82 E0B5