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Date:      Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:21:27 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ufsstat - testers / feedback wanted! 
Message-ID:  <9523.1129234887@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 13 Oct 2005 14:41:14 CDT." <434EB85A.9030308@centtech.com> 

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In message <434EB85A.9030308@centtech.com>, Eric Anderson writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>> I would far to prefer to see a generic method that would work
>> on all filesystems types, rather than a ufs specific tool.
>> 
>> If you added counting code to the VOP_FOO() expansions, you should
>> be able to gather statistics for all filesystem types.
>> 
>> The collection could be controlled by a mount option if the impact
>> is too big.
>
>That's an idea I thought of as well, but wanted to start small, since I 
>really am new to C programming.  Now that I've done this part, I'll look 
>at the various vop_* pieces and see if it's something in my grasp.

I'd prefer for us to not commit a ufs-only solution, that would be
enough to hold off a filesystem independent solution.

> From what it sounds like, you'd also like to see per-mount point stats, 
>but from the vfs layer, right?   If that's true, then do you have any 
>suggestions on how to store the statistics for each mounted fs?

In struct mount ?

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