Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 17:38:14 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: lsvfs(1) removal ? Message-ID: <XFMail.20020729173814.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200207292121.g6TLLNUA008896@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On 29-Jul-2002 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. If this information were available via sysctl(8)'s would that be sufficient? From what I've seen of the nmount stuff talking with Maxime several things will be available for at least read-only access via sysctl's. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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