Re: human-readable swap partition sizes with pstat -sh

From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 21:59:50 +0200
On 2005-01-06 11:57, Brooks Davis <brooks_at_one-eyed-alien.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 09:12:01PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > The following patch adds support for human-readable partition sizes in
> > pstat -s and swapinfo output, when the -h option is used:
> >
> > 	gothmog:/d/src/usr.sbin/pstat$ ./pstat -s
> > 	Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
> > 	/dev/ad1s1b       5120000       12  5120000     0%
> >
> > 	gothmog:/d/src/usr.sbin/pstat$ ./pstat -sh
> > 	Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
> > 	/dev/ad1s1b       5120000      12K     4.9G     0%
> >
> > Does anyone have comments or suggestions for further improvement?
>
> Look good in general.  Does -kh make sense?  I think so since it would
> force the blocks line, but I'm not 100% sure.

It does.  -k only affects the way 'number of blocks' is printed.  The
sizes of 'used' and 'avail' are calculated differently -- in bytes,
otherwise humanize_number() would return bogus strings.

> On minor, mostly style nit is that while intmax_t is 64-bits, nothing
> requires that so you should probably have conver return an int64_t.

I lost you a bit here.

> I'd argue that we might want to replace the int64_t in humanize_number
> with intmax_t since that wouldn't change the ABI (or API due to implicit
> casts), but would mean we wouldn't have to add a humanize_number128
> later if some architecture grows 128-bit ints for some reason or
> another.

Indeed, that would be nice :-)
Received on Thu Jan 06 2005 - 18:59:58 UTC

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