On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Bill Fumerola wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 06:09:54PM +0200, Paul Herman wrote:
>
> > Naturally, "no reason not to put it in" is most certainly *not* a
> > reason to put it in. I would like to hear some to sway me one way or
> > the other.
> >
>
> [...]
> [hawk-billf] /home/billf > du -cs /usr/src/sys/i386 /usr/ports/math
> 6282 /usr/src/sys/i386
> 15288 /usr/ports/math
> 21570 total
>
> Precedence.
>
OK, I'm with ya, I could go with Precedence, but you have to admit,
it's pretty weak. Just because "it's been done before"...? Hmmm.
Well, I was hoping for something concrete about the program like
"because this option gives us something never seen by sysadmins before
without massive contortions", or "this option does correctly what XXX
program never could..." etc. Unfortunately, I can't think of any
myself.
For what one person's opinion is worth, I still haven't heard a strong
reason for this. Sorry guys, you can still color me undecided on this
one. :(
On a side note, look what I found:
bash-2.03# cd
bash-2.03# ln -s /dev/ad0s6e "Heh? What's this?"
bash-2.03# mount "Heh? What's this?" /mnt
bash-2.03# ln -s /dev/ad0s6f total
bash-2.03# mount total /mnt2
bash-2.03# mkdir whut_thuh_hey; cd whut_thuh_hey
bash-2.03# ln -s /dev/ad0s6g total
bash-2.03# mount total /mnt3
bash-2.03# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad0s2a 446503 30922 379861 8% /
/dev/ad0s9e 1453615 758910 578416 57% /usr
/dev/ad0s9f 968983 357403 534062 40% /usr/local
/dev/ad0s9g 242239 9945 212915 4% /var
/dev/ad0s9h 2013515 1242447 609987 67% /u01
procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc
Heh? What's this? 242239 9945 212915 4% /mnt
total 1581144 505684 995140 34% /mnt2
total 1391380 414168 906528 31% /mnt3
bash-2.03#
Hee, hee. Yes, this is probably no big deal (and not put forth as any
strong argument for not commiting this) but who knows what some
cronjob scripts might expect. Hmmm, let me give constructive
criticism a shot and see how far it goes:
Perhaps if it were expected that the "df -c" output were completly
different? Then "total" would be less likely to be counted as some
other filesystem by mistake? Perhaps something along the lines:
bash-2.0.3# df -c /usr /usr/local
Totals for: /usr /usr/local
1K-Blocks: 2422598
Used: 1116313
Avail: 1306285
Capacity: 46%
Dunno how that would go over with the purists, though... after all
'df' is in one of the holiest of directories... /bin. <g>
-Paul.
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