Prior to coreutils 8, df would do a statfs then print out info for each individual filesystem sequentially. This was useful for troubleshooting network filesystems in particular, as df hangs at the individual fs that had the issues.
Probably as a result of http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=ddf6fb8686b1ed6a26d5f1c76a642d0fb5fe7ba7 df no longer does this. Instead, it does statfs on all filesystems before attempting to print anything. The result is that if there's a problem with any filesystem, no output is printed out. This is irritating, to the point that some (big) customers keep the old df around just for this. My question is, if a patch that allows doing it the old sequential way would have a chance of being accepted. Philipp
