Hi Tom, наб, On 2023-07-05 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. > >> +This is not an issue, since no filesystems with an i-node >> +root reservation exist. > > s/i-node/inode/ for the same reason. IIRC, I've already written this in the past, but I can't find it. I'll write again, just in case. man-pages(7) seems to confirm what Tom says: Preferred terms The following table lists some preferred terms to use in man pages, mainly to ensure consistency across pages. Term Avoid using Notes ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── bit mask bitmask built‐in builtin Epoch epoch For the UNIX Epoch (00:00:00, 1 Jan 1970 UTC) filename file name filesystem file system hostname host name inode i‐node Cheers, Alex > >> .SH STANDARDS >> POSIX.1-2008. >> .SH HISTORY > -- <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/> GPG key fingerprint: A9348594CE31283A826FBDD8D57633D441E25BB5
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