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Date:      Tue, 1 Oct 2013 11:50:18 -0700
From:      aurfalien <aurfalien@gmail.com>
To:        Berend de Boer <berend@pobox.com>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: zfs: the exponential file system from hell
Message-ID:  <A35A5587-E910-483E-AB02-C9079891CB0B@gmail.com>
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On Oct 1, 2013, at 11:36 AM, Berend de Boer wrote:

>>>>>> "Jordan" =3D=3D Jordan Hubbard <jkh@mail.turbofuzz.com> writes:
>=20
>    Jordan> Given that we have the sources to df, I guess we should
>    Jordan> consider the question begged: Do we want to change it to
>    Jordan> DTRT for zfs filesystems?  There's no Unix Law=99 that says
>    Jordan> "df(1) must use the output of statfs(2) directly and can
>    Jordan> use no longer sources of information!"
>=20
> What an amount of emails to this list it would safe!
>=20
> --=20
> In favour obviously,
>=20
> Berend de Boer


Well, a ZFS aware df would be cool but how would NFS clients on a diff =
OS handle this?

I'd say leave it alone and leave it to the sys admins to write a wrapper =
for clients that tosses ssh to the server and runs the appropriate zfs =
tool for expected space stats.

- aurf=



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