Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Oct 2005 05:25:19 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/8] VFS: per inode statfs (core) |
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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. - 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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