Subject: re: statvfs(2) replacement for statfs(2) patch
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/20/2004 11:34:52
cool. we needed this for large filesystem :-)

   
   The statfs() calls are still available at link time for dynamic binaries,
   and at runtime for statically linked binaries (with COMPAT_20), but they
   are not available at compile time. This is a design choice, to force people
   to move to the more portable statvfs() call, without needing to provide
   an expanded statfs() call that would handle > 2TB or limiting old programs
   to 2TB.

i think it's too early for this change.  ie, netbsd 2.0 supports
statfs() but the next (major) release won't.  how about remove them
from being supported in the following release?  that gives people
at least one release with both interfaces and some time to change.


.mrg.