On 03/14/2016 10:35 AM, jdd wrote:
Le 14/03/2016 15:22, Anton Aylward a écrit :
This seems to be Ruben's primary complaint. I have to agree with him here. Once you could see where the system was consuming space with the 'df' command and do something about it. Now we've lost that granularity of inspection.
not really. We have other command that do the same
btrfs fi show
True but wrong headed. It means a script has to deal with an 'exception', determining the fstype first. Ok, not a insurmountable complication, but a complication that shouldn't be necessary. *NIX always worked by being 'regular'. It was the Giants, the monolithic OSes that needed all this 'exceptional' dealing. Like VMS, where the text files produced by the terminal editor, I found, were not the type of text file that the C compiler wanted. Why? Some idiotic view of 'optimization'. The reality is that it took more time in human frustration and workaround than was ever saved in CPU time because of this attitude towards 'optimization'.
but this needs to be root, may be shouldn't
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