From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, drepper@redhat.com,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] add f_flags to struct statfs(64)
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 23:16:50 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100626131650.GK29809@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100626130928.GA1838@lst.de>
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 03:09:28PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 07:56:53PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > Is f_favail important enough to add as well?
>
> As Uli if he needs it. Adding real support for it won't be quite
> as easy as adding f_flags, as the individual filesystems would need
> to support it.
>
> And those not derived from FFS generally don't
> have any different accounting of inodes allocates vs inodes allocated to
> non-root user. In fact faking up any kind of free inodes values is
> already difficult enough for modern filesystems.
Yeah, quite likely it is not worth using up another field for this,
and instead the statvfs Linux man page should be updated instead.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-26 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-26 9:35 [PATCH 2/2] add f_flags to struct statfs(64) Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-26 9:56 ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-26 13:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-26 13:16 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2010-06-26 12:55 ` Neil Brown
2010-06-26 13:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-27 7:55 ` Tao Ma
2010-06-27 9:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-28 18:43 ` Andreas Dilger
2010-06-28 19:52 ` Ulrich Drepper
2010-06-28 20:07 ` Andreas Dilger
2010-06-29 8:57 ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-29 9:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-29 9:59 ` Ulrich Drepper
2010-06-29 11:05 ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-29 12:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-07-07 16:53 Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-07 17:11 ` Ulrich Drepper
2010-07-07 17:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-07-07 17:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-07 17:55 ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-07-07 18:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-07-07 18:50 ` Nick Piggin
2010-07-07 19:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-07-18 6:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-18 17:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-07-07 18:16 ` Nick Piggin
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