Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:13:14 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dynamic vs static sysctls? Message-ID: <200101190013.f0J0DEb88324@earth.backplane.com> References: <200101180925.f0I9PGj01700@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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:> Why not an ioctl on the disk device? You could arrange to pass in an
:> array of free blocks to reduce the number of syscalls.
:
:Because there's no linkage between the disk device and the filesystem.
:An ioctl on the mountpoint might make (a little) more sense.
The sysctl scares me... it's a massively unportable idea. I'd much
prefer running an ioctl through the filesystem.
-Matt
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