Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Petr Vandrovec" <> | Date | Thu, 9 Nov 2000 19:31:48 MET-1 | Subject | Re: Used space in bytes |
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On 9 Nov 00 at 19:18, Jan Kara wrote: > used (I tried to contact Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> who should > be right person to ask about such things (at least I was said so) but go > no answer...). Does anybody have any better solution? > I know about two others - really ugly ones: > 1) fs specific ioctl() > 2) compute needed number of bytes from st_size and st_blocks, which is > currently possible but won't be in future
If I may, please do not add it into stat/stat64 structure. On Netware, computing really used space can take eons because of it has to read allocation tables to memory to find size. It is usually about 500% slower than retrieving all other file informations.
Or at least add some parameter to stat so that filesystem can say which informations are important for you. But I think that ioctl is less ugly. But that's just my opinion and I know that others here are strongly against ioctl. Best regards, Petr Vandrovec vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
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