zfs: the exponential file system from hell

[aurfalien]

On Oct 1, 2013, at 11:36 AM, Berend de Boer wrote:

>>>>>> "Jordan" == Jordan Hubbard <jkh at mail.turbofuzz.com> writes:
> 
>    Jordan> Given that we have the sources to df, I guess we should
>    Jordan> consider the question begged: Do we want to change it to
>    Jordan> DTRT for zfs filesystems?  There's no Unix Law™ that says
>    Jordan> "df(1) must use the output of statfs(2) directly and can
>    Jordan> use no longer sources of information!"
> 
> What an amount of emails to this list it would safe!
> 
> -- 
> In favour obviously,
> 
> Berend de Boer


Well, a ZFS aware df would be cool but how would NFS clients on a diff OS handle this?

I'd say leave it alone and leave it to the sys admins to write a wrapper for clients that tosses ssh to the server and runs the appropriate zfs tool for expected space stats.

- aurf