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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/8] VFS: per inode statfs (core)
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 06:55:19PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> This patch adds a statfs method to inode operations. This is invoked
> whenever the dentry is available (not called from sys_ustat()) and the
> filesystem implements this method. Otherwise the normal
> s_op->statfs() will be called.
>
> This change is backward compatible, but calls to vfs_statfs() should
> be changed to vfs_dentry_statfs() whenever possible.

What the fuck for? statfs() returns data that by definition should
not depend on inode within a filesystem.

NAK, and if FUSE needs that for something, it's *badly* misdesigned.
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