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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: "Nils O. Selåsdal" <noselasd@frisurf.no>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: df on a nfs mounted share vs local?
Date: 05 Jul 2002 14:35:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <shsu1nel5dq.fsf@charged.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1025793209.10267.5.camel@space>

>>>>> " " == Nils O <Selåsdal <noselasd@frisurf.no>> writes:

     > Just wondering, how come df reports root:~# df /mnt/export/
     > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5
     > 2562252 383792 2178460 15% /mnt/export on the server, while on
     > a client that mounts /mnt/export over nfs: [root@space
     > download]# df /mnt/nfs/ Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available
     > Use% Mounted on lfs:/mnt/export 2562256 383792 2178464 15%
     > /mnt/nfs

     > Just a few blocks diffrent, but I've seen much bigger.. also
     > seen +/- a few % on "Use"

It is a rounding error. The block size on the NFS client is typically
4 or 8k, whereas the block size on the local filesystem is typically
512 bytes.

On most UNIX implementations, the 'statvfs()' call supports two
variables f_bsize and f_frsize, which allow you to distinguish between
the two. Linux lacks kernel support for the latter variable.

Cheers,
  Trond

      reply	other threads:[~2002-07-05 12:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-04 14:35 df on a nfs mounted share vs local? Nils O. Selåsdal
2002-07-05 12:35 ` Trond Myklebust [this message]

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