On 2023-07-18 13:43, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > 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 Ahh, never mind; I could find now my old mail, which had been responded with v3, which I have already applied as c3f43ba17 ("statvfs.3: note f_favail = f_ffree on Linux") Cheers, Alex > >> >>> .SH STANDARDS >>> POSIX.1-2008. >>> .SH HISTORY >> > -- <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/> GPG key fingerprint: A9348594CE31283A826FBDD8D57633D441E25BB5
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