Re: [PATCH 2/2] add f_flags to struct statfs(64)

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On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 03:09:28PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 07:56:53PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > Is f_favail important enough to add as well?
> 
> As Uli if he needs it.  Adding real support for it won't be quite
> as easy as adding f_flags, as the individual filesystems would need
> to support it.
>
>  And those not derived from FFS generally don't
> have any different accounting of inodes allocates vs inodes allocated to
> non-root user.  In fact faking up any kind of free inodes values is
> already difficult enough for modern filesystems.

Yeah, quite likely it is not worth using up another field for this,
and instead the statvfs Linux man page should be updated instead.

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