Re: Translating raw capacity to real data capacity in statfs

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On Thu, 8 Feb 2018, Douglas Fuller wrote:
> > On Feb 8, 2018, at 8:11 AM, Sage Weil <sage@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 8 Feb 2018, Yan, Zheng wrote:
> >> On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 10:47 AM, Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> Hi Cepher,
> >>> 
> >>> Current statfs(2) in ceph kernel client provides raw capacity information of total/used/avail,
> >>> but in the point of view of filesystem I think we actually more willing to see real data capacity instead of raw.
> >>> 
> >>> So I have a suggestion to translate raw capacity to real data capacity, it can be simply implemented by
> >>> taking advantage of num.object_copies, the result may be not very accurate but still having reference significance.
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> It's not that simple when there are multiple data pools.
> > 
> > I seem to remember someone (Doug or Jeff?) working on a patch that would 
> > adjust the statfs result for a given directory based on the data pool and 
> > the usual "max avail" style calculation that 'ceph df' uses per pool 
> > (which is based on replication/ec multiplier and most-full osd)…?
> 
> I did that in: https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/16378 
> <https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/16378> . This only works for the case 
> where the filesystem uses a single data pool. In other cases, it falls 
> back to the old behavior.

FWIW, statfs(2) takes a path and fstatfs(2) takes an fd, so at least the 
user-facing API should be able to handle it.  And in the kernel the statfs 
call super_operations takes a dentry.  So it should be possible to do 
this?

sage

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