[OpenAFS] Explorer display in windows client

Anders Magnusson ragge@ltu.se
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:15:14 +0100


Frank Burkhardt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 11:03:32AM +0100, Anders Magnusson wrote:
>   
>> Just a question;
>>
>> in the explorer window, if an AFS path is mapped as a letter, the "Total
>> Size" and "Free Space" information is something completely different from
>> the underlying volume sizes.  Are there any special reasons for this or is
>> it just not implemented?
>>     
>
> Since there are at least two "Free Space" and "Total Size" information
> per volume (Partition and the Volume itself) and the mounted volume
> may contain mountpoints to other volumes, there's nothing that would
> make sense to show for such drive letter.
>   
Well, I think "Volume MaxQuota" and "Volume used" would make sense there.
Much more than some fake numbers anyway.

> You have to to expect a different "Free space"/"Total Size" information for
> every directory in AFS because every directory can be a different volume.
>   
Yes, of course.

-- Ragge
> Regards,
>
> Frank
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