Re: [PATCH 2/8] VFS: per inode statfs (core)

[Miklos Szeredi]

> > This patch adds a statfs method to inode operations.  This is invoked
> > whenever the dentry is available (not called from sys_ustat()) and the
> > filesystem implements this method.  Otherwise the normal
> > s_op->statfs() will be called.
> > 
> > This change is backward compatible, but calls to vfs_statfs() should
> > be changed to vfs_dentry_statfs() whenever possible.
> 
> What the fuck for?  statfs() returns data that by definition should
> not depend on inode within a filesystem.

Exactly.  But it's specified nowhere that there has to be a one-one
mapping between remote filesystem - local filesystem.

Miklos
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