Christoph, > More seriously - ustat provides the benefit to check if the block device > is mounted anywhere, which we make use of here. A statfs of the block > device path doesn't provide that functionality at all. > Now I understand your concern. However if we would want to replace the deprecated ustat call, then what other way would be acceptable to achieve the same. Would parsing the /proc/mounts for the block device name suffice ?. Thanks Kamal On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 2:45 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 04:11:24PM -0500, Kamal Dasu wrote: >> >From the ustat man page >> >> NOTES >> ustat() is deprecated and has only been provided for compatibility. >> All new programs should use statfs(2) instead. > > xfsprogs isn't new :) > > More seriously - ustat provides the benefit to check if the block device > is mounted anywhere, which we make use of here. A statfs of the block > device path doesn't provide that functionality at all. > _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
