From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jul 29 14:36:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1F1637B400 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 14:36:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ABBF43E5E for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 14:36:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mux@freebsd.org) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1920) id 67A1DAE1FE; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 14:36:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 14:36:30 -0700 From: Maxime Henrion To: Garrett Wollman Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: lsvfs(1) removal ? Message-ID: <20020729213630.GR42325@elvis.mu.org> References: <200207292054.g6TKsSvq008658@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <200207292121.g6TLLNUA008896@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200207292121.g6TLLNUA008896@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Garrett Wollman wrote: > < 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