On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 1:05 PM Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Bear in mind that if the same file has been opened several times, then > you'll get an increment for each. Having an open file count (even for the same inode) and a count of inodes opened sounds useful to me. The latter would require some kind of refcounting for each inode? Maybe that's too expensive though. > Would it potentially be more useful to report the number of inodes that > have open file descriptions associated with them? It's hard for me to > know as I'm not clear on the intended use-case for this. Use-case is more information available via `fs top`. -- Patrick Donnelly, Ph.D. He / Him / His Principal Software Engineer Red Hat Sunnyvale, CA GPG: 19F28A586F808C2402351B93C3301A3E258DD79D
