Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | Subject | [patch] make tmpfs_statfs more user friendly | | From | Christoph Rohland <> | | Date | 04 Feb 2001 16:37:26 +0100 |
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Hi Alan,
The following patch make shmem_statfs report some sensible size estimates in the case that the user does not give a size limit.
This should make it more error prone when used as /tmp
Greetings Christoph
diff -uNr 2.4.1-tmpfs/mm/shmem.c 2.4.1-tmpfs-fstat/mm/shmem.c --- 2.4.1-tmpfs/mm/shmem.c Sun Feb 4 16:08:57 2001 +++ 2.4.1-tmpfs-fstat/mm/shmem.c Sun Feb 4 16:09:50 2001 @@ -696,13 +696,20 @@ buf->f_type = TMPFS_MAGIC; buf->f_bsize = PAGE_CACHE_SIZE; spin_lock (&sb->u.shmem_sb.stat_lock); - if (sb->u.shmem_sb.max_blocks != ULONG_MAX || - sb->u.shmem_sb.max_inodes != ULONG_MAX) { + if (sb->u.shmem_sb.max_blocks == ULONG_MAX) { + /* + * This is only a guestimate and not honoured. + * We need it to make some programs happy which like to + * test the free space of a file system. + */ + buf->f_bavail = buf->f_bfree = nr_free_pages() + nr_swap_pages + atomic_read(&buffermem_pages); + buf->f_blocks = buf->f_bfree + ULONG_MAX - sb->u.shmem_sb.free_blocks; + } else { buf->f_blocks = sb->u.shmem_sb.max_blocks; buf->f_bavail = buf->f_bfree = sb->u.shmem_sb.free_blocks; - buf->f_files = sb->u.shmem_sb.max_inodes; - buf->f_ffree = sb->u.shmem_sb.free_inodes; } + buf->f_files = sb->u.shmem_sb.max_inodes; + buf->f_ffree = sb->u.shmem_sb.free_inodes; spin_unlock (&sb->u.shmem_sb.stat_lock); buf->f_namelen = 255; return 0; - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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