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

[Al Viro]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 09:05:35PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > > 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

And finding the pathnames to call statfs() on is by some magic cheaper?
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