From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jul 29 14:38:20 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 19F6837B401 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 14:38:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail14.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9872C43E3B for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 14:38:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 2412 invoked from network); 29 Jul 2002 21:38:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail14.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 29 Jul 2002 21:38:12 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6TLcBuR051746; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 17:38:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200207292121.g6TLLNUA008896@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 17:38:14 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Garrett Wollman Subject: Re: lsvfs(1) removal ? Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org 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 On 29-Jul-2002 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. 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 <>< 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