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Re: CVS commit: basesrc/bin/df



On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 02:28:36PM +1000, Simon Burge wrote:
> > Following FreeBSD's example, remove the old pre-statfs(2) code for
> > examining FFS filesystems directly. This also gets rid of df(1)'s
> > setgid operator bit.
> 
> I wonder if leaving the code in df.c might not be a good idea.  It may
> be useful for df'ing unmounted filesystems if you have appropriate
> privledges, and also for df'ing filesystems built by the distrib
> tools...

Well, there is always vnd(4).. I think maybe we should take a hint
from Linux and have mount(8) transparently allow mounting of files..


-- 
Soren



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