From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, smfrench@gmail.com,
jlayton@redhat.com, mcao@us.ibm.com,
aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
samba-technical@lists.samba.org, sjayaraman@suse.de,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Extended file stat functions [ver #2]
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 13:07:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14955.1385644044@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131126104034.GA4854@quack.suse.cz>
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote:
> > unsigned long long st_blocks;
> When we are doing this, can we please also change 'st_blocks' to
> 'st_bytes'? We track space usage in kernel in bytes for a long time so it
> would be nice to propagate it to userspace via stat instead of a special
> ioctl (at least quotacheck(8) needs to know the exact value).
Ummm... I'm not sure about that. Ideally, every field that is provided in
the current stat() buffer must still be there. On the other hand, since
they're going to be moved around, presumably there will be a userspace
translation layer.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-28 13:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-30 1:16 [PATCH 0/3] Extended file stat functions [ver #2] David Howells
2010-06-30 1:17 ` [PATCH 1/3] Mark arguments to certain syscalls as being const " David Howells
2010-06-30 1:17 ` [PATCH 2/3] AFS: Use i_generation not i_version for the vnode uniquifier " David Howells
2010-06-30 1:17 ` [PATCH 3/3] Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available " David Howells
2010-06-30 1:48 ` Trond Myklebust
2010-06-30 9:33 ` Andreas Dilger
2010-06-30 9:47 ` David Howells
2010-06-30 2:32 ` Nicholas Miell
2010-06-30 8:30 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-06-30 8:55 ` David Howells
2010-06-30 9:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-06-30 10:01 ` David Howells
2010-06-30 11:46 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-06-30 12:14 ` David Howells
2010-06-30 12:44 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-06-30 9:45 ` Andreas Dilger
2010-06-30 10:22 ` David Howells
2010-06-30 11:04 ` [PATCH 0/3] Extended file stat functions " Andreas Dilger
2010-06-30 12:05 ` David Howells
2010-06-30 12:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-30 12:23 ` David Howells
2010-06-30 13:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-06-30 14:05 ` Jeff Layton
2010-06-30 17:36 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-06-30 21:45 ` Andreas Dilger
2010-06-30 23:15 ` David Howells
2010-06-30 23:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-07-01 0:15 ` David Howells
2010-07-01 3:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-07-01 4:57 ` Andreas Dilger
2010-07-01 8:09 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-07-05 23:52 ` Brad Boyer
2013-11-26 10:40 ` Jan Kara
2013-11-28 13:07 ` David Howells [this message]
2013-11-28 13:57 ` Jan Kara
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