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SubjectRe: [PATCH 8/8] FUSE: per inode statfs
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?
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