Richard Lowe wrote:
> Boyd Adamson <boyd-adamson at usa.net> writes:
>
>
>>Chris Kirby <chris.kirby at sun.com> writes:
>>
>>>None of {ZFS,QFS,UFS} even bother to grab a lock in their statvfs
>>>handlers, so as Boyd Adamson correctly pointed out, all of the statvfs
>>>values are rumors at best anyway.
>>
>>Actually, that wasn't me. I pointed out that the free space at this
>>moment is no guide as to the free space when we actually come to write
>>the files.
>>
>
>
> And that surely the right thing to do here is to have the application
> either deal with EOVERFLOW sanely, or use the largefile environment.
No doubt, that's definitely the best solution in general.
The request for this RFE was to see if we could do something reasonable
for apps that can't be fixed for whatever reason (no maintainer, no
source code, etc.). That's what I'm trying to explore. :-)
-Chris
