Re: wedge device to name

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <qlvug6$6lbg$1%blaine.gmane.org@localhost>,
Christos Zoulas <christos%astron.com@localhost> wrote:
>In article <qlvhpb$eq5$1%serpens.de@localhost>,
>Michael van Elst <mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost> wrote:
>>christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas) writes:
>>
>>>I added that to df, but it needs root/operator in order to access the
>>>device node to get wedge info. I also wrote a patch to expose the
>>>wedge info via sysctl:
>>
>>Alternatives ?
>>
>>Expose via an enhanced statvfs() syscall. After all df is a user interface
>>for that syscall. It would at least allow in theory to return a copy
>>of the exact mount path.
>
>Yes, this is the first thing I thought. I will see how feasible it it.

I've implemented this but the patch is fairly long (due to the 4 syscalls
that need to be versioned). Anyway it works, and once I get a successful
build I will post the pstch here.

christos