Re: [PATCH 8/8] FUSE: per inode statfs

[Miklos Szeredi]

> > This patch makes FUSE based filesystems able to return filesystem
> > statistics based on path.  While breaks with the tradition of
> > homogeneous statistics per _local_ filesystem, however adds useful
> > ability to user to differentiate statistics from different _remote_
> > filesystem served by the same userspace server.
> 
> Wouldn't it make more sense to create more mountpoints (on demand, if
> necessary) to handle this case?

Only if

 a) it's possible to find out about remote mountpoints

 b) not prohibitively expensive to do so on each lookup

Miklos
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