From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] VFS: per inode statfs (core)
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 05:25:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051025042519.GJ7992@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1EU5bT-0005sq-00@dorka.pomaz.szeredi.hu>
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 06:55:19PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> This patch adds a statfs method to inode operations. This is invoked
> whenever the dentry is available (not called from sys_ustat()) and the
> filesystem implements this method. Otherwise the normal
> s_op->statfs() will be called.
>
> This change is backward compatible, but calls to vfs_statfs() should
> be changed to vfs_dentry_statfs() whenever possible.
What the fuck for? statfs() returns data that by definition should
not depend on inode within a filesystem.
NAK, and if FUSE needs that for something, it's *badly* misdesigned.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-25 4:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-24 16:55 [PATCH 2/8] VFS: per inode statfs (core) Miklos Szeredi
2005-10-25 4:25 ` Al Viro [this message]
2005-10-25 5:44 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-10-26 17:31 ` Jan Hudec
2005-10-26 19:17 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-10-26 19:52 ` Jan Hudec
2005-10-26 20:10 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-10-26 20:15 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-10-27 8:07 ` Jan Hudec
2005-10-27 8:23 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-10-27 12:35 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-10-27 12:53 ` Miklos Szeredi
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