On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 13:23 -0500, Chuck Lever wrote: > On 01/26/2010 06:21 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > I wonder if nautilus (or some library it uses) likes to regularly > > "statfs" all the filesystems it knows about? > > The NFS client seems to like to send these periodically, but I've never > looked into why. It's probably triggered by some cache timeout, and > gathers recent server file system information. No. It is entirely application driven. Furthermore, most of the statfs data is uncached, since it should not be performance critical in any sane application environment. IOW: I agree with Bruce that this is most likely GNOME or nautilus triggering statfs calls. Indeed, when I do actually open a window on some directory it also appears to display the free space. Trond -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
