Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 14:36:30 -0700 From: Maxime Henrion <mux@freebsd.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: lsvfs(1) removal ? Message-ID: <20020729213630.GR42325@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <200207292121.g6TLLNUA008896@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <200207292054.g6TKsSvq008658@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <XFMail.20020729170348.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <200207292121.g6TLLNUA008896@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 17:03:48 -0400 (EDT), John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> said: > > > is one way of getting the refcount if you really want it. Why do > > you need a program to tell you that NFS is a network file system > > and procfs and devfs are synthetic? > > I want this information to be easily available for tools which might > want to do something different for certain types of filesystem (e.g., > avoid looking at them) without having to have compiled-in knowledge of > the properties of every filesystem available. Then these tools can just use the sysctl's that lsvfs(1) is using to get this information, which is probably much better than parsing the output of lsvfs(1). Maxime To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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