[tahoe-dev] Suggestion for command: tahoe df

Greg Troxel gdt at ir.bbn.com
Sun Jun 9 12:09:55 UTC 2013


Pierre Abbat <phma at bezitopo.org> writes:

> I'd like to see a tahoe df command. It should find out how much free
> space is at each storage server, sort them, clip the biggest
> shares.happy ones to the shares.happy'th, add them up, and divide by
> the expansion factor. When run verbosely, it could tell how much free
> space is available at each server. What do you think?

That's a good idea.  Moreover, really it should try to return the
contents of statvfs, so that 'df' on a sytem with a FUSE mount will work
right.  (usual rant tahoe isn't as special as it thinks)

I suspect 'how much is free' is tricky, but your approach sounds right.



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