Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Oct 2005 05:32:46 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 8/8] FUSE: per inode statfs |
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On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 09:05:35PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > This patch makes FUSE based filesystems able to return filesystem > > > statistics based on path. While breaks with the tradition of > > > homogeneous statistics per _local_ filesystem, however adds useful > > > ability to user to differentiate statistics from different _remote_ > > > filesystem served by the same userspace server. > > > > Wouldn't it make more sense to create more mountpoints (on demand, if > > necessary) to handle this case? > > Only if > > a) it's possible to find out about remote mountpoints > > b) not prohibitively expensive to do so on each lookup
And finding the pathnames to call statfs() on is by some magic cheaper? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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