Linuxulator: syscall statfs64 not implemented?

[Divacky Roman]

On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 08:58:32PM -0400, Paul Mather wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 22:43 +0200, Divacky Roman wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 02:02:50PM -0400, Paul Mather wrote:
> > > Since updating my -CURRENT system circa 16th August I'm getting an error
> > > like this when my daily Tivoli backup runs:
> > > 
> > > Aug 20 02:18:50 zappa kernel: linux: pid 768 (dsmc): syscall statfs64 not implemented
> > > 
> > > I don't know whether this is a -CURRENT problem or a problem with
> > > linux_base-fc4, but I lean towards the former because the same nightly
> > > backup setup I'm running on a 6.1-STABLE system runs without problems.
> > > 
> > > I recall a discussion about merging Linux 2.6 kernel support into HEAD
> > > around the time I updated.  Could this be related to that?  Here is what
> > > I have for my Linux compat sysctls:
> > > 
> > > compat.linux.oss_version: 198144
> > > compat.linux.osrelease: 2.4.2
> > > compat.linux.osname: Linux
> > > 
> > > Is anyone else having this "syscall statfs64 not implemented" problem?
> > 
> > yes, everyone. statfs64 syscalls is not implemented.
> > 
> > I might implement if its important and you are willing to test. it should be
> > quite trivial but I need the testing.
> 
> I guess I might be missing something subtle, here.  Is there some kind
> of rewrite-from-scratch of the Linuxulator going on at the moment,
> because obviously the statfs64 syscall used to be implemented (until
> recently) in the i386 Linux kernel compat code, but now it has vanished?
> (Your response above makes it sound like it never was present at all.)
 
the syscall was never presented
 
> Nevertheless, because it seems like statfs64 is vital to having the
> Tivoli Storage Manager client work (it just hangs around and the backup
> fails without it), then I figure at least I consider it "important" and,
> yes, I'd be willing to help test. :-)

it seems like very trivial so expect patch today ;)