Hi! On 7/5/23 15:57, Tom Schwindl wrote:
On Sat Jun 24, 2023 at 2:39 AM CEST, наб wrote:Quoting myself from #musl: 01:59:40 hm, I think this was just invented for symmetry with bfree/bavail 02:00:46 FFS has minfree for space but nothing equivalent for inodes 02:32:31 (this is mirrored in ext4; a global grep over DragonFlyBSD and the illumos gate showed just NFSv3 forwarding from the server; OpenBSD always sets it to the same thing as f_ffree; oddly, NetBSD /does/ calculate it differently for LFS and FFS but due to queued writes or w/e not because of root reservation; and as expected a lot of "/* what to put in here? */" and "// XXX same??") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/f54kudgblgk643u32tb6at4cd3kkzha6hslahv24szs4raroaz@ogivjbfdaqtb/t/#u Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- man3/statvfs.3 | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/man3/statvfs.3 b/man3/statvfs.3 index b1f0e7545..272ee5391 100644 --- a/man3/statvfs.3 +++ b/man3/statvfs.3 @@ -227,6 +227,14 @@ .SH NOTES .BR statvfs () with the argument .IR path . +.PP +Under Linux, +.I f_favail +is always the same as +.IR f_ffree , +and there's no way for a file-system to report otherwise.s/file-system/filesystem/ as that's what's used elsewhere.
Tom seems to be right. See man-pages(7):
Preferred terms
The following table lists some preferred terms to use in
man pages, mainly to ensure consistency across pages.
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built‐in builtin
Epoch epoch For the UNIX
Epoch
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filesystem file system
hostname host name
inode i‐node
Cheers,
Alex
+This is not an issue, since no filesystems with an i-node +root reservation exist.s/i-node/inode/ for the same reason..SH STANDARDS POSIX.1-2008. .SH HISTORY
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