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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: development APIs for used/free blocks information
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 16:33:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <571FDEB1.90701@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <97A4F433DEE099488FE21C1718A641D2139E86F5@wmsexchsvr01.winmagic.local>

On 4/26/16 3:51 PM, Benjamin Wirth wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was looking for development APIs for XFS. The contents of
> xfsprogs-devel seem to only contain a few IOCTL commands, mostly
> file/inode based operations.
> 
> I need to query free/used blocks of an entire XFS filesystem and was
> hoping to find some user-space APIs for this. I have done the same
> task for EXT filesystem which seemed fairly easy as it provided
> simple open/query/close APIs. I know that XFS is a bit different as
> it manages free extents in two B+ trees per AG, but is this free/used
> block/extent information externalized somehow for developers to use?
> Am I not looking in the right place or these functionalities are
> simply not provided to application developers?
> 
> Any help/pointers would be greatly appreciated.

It's not exported for application developers, no; it's not
generally something applications need, AFAIK.

You could look at how the freesp_f function works in xfs_db, I suppose.

-Eric

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-26 21:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-26 20:51 development APIs for used/free blocks information Benjamin Wirth
2016-04-26 21:33 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2016-04-26 22:21 ` Dave Chinner
2016-04-26 22:51   ` Eric Sandeen
2016-04-26 23:09     ` Dave Chinner
2016-04-27 12:54   ` Benjamin Wirth
2016-04-27 23:41     ` Dave Chinner
2016-06-16 19:57       ` Benjamin Wirth

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