On Jul 29, 2013, at 8:18 AM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > From an API POV, libvirt doesn't need/care about the free space on the > volume underlying the filesystem. We actually only care about the free > space in a given directory that we're using for disk images. It just > happens that we implement this using statvfs() currently. So when I > ask for an API above, don't take this to mean I want a statvfs() that > knows about sparse volumes. An API or syscall that provides free space > for individual directories is fine with me. Got it. So what's needed is an API that can return available space to user/application, while abstracting whether the limit is a function of btrfs raid peculiarities, thinp overcommitting, or file system quota? And then applications that need to know what this limit is, need to use this new API? Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
