Re: [PATCH updated] Add "--dirstat" for some directory statistics

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 13, 2008, 13:48 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802131347490.30505@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <fou7pu$dpq$1@ger.gmane.org>

Hi,

On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:

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> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 	   7.6% fs/afs/
> > 	   7.6% fs/fuse/
> > 	   7.6% fs/gfs2/
> > 	   5.1% fs/jffs2/
> > 	   5.1% fs/nfs/
> > 	   5.1% fs/nfsd/
> > 	   7.6% fs/reiserfs/
> > 	  15.3% fs/
> [...]
> > For an example of the cumulative reporting, the above commit becomes
> [...]
> > 	   7.6% fs/afs/
> > 	   7.6% fs/fuse/
> > 	   7.6% fs/gfs2/
> > 	   5.1% fs/jffs2/
> > 	   5.1% fs/nfs/
> > 	   5.1% fs/nfsd/
> > 	   7.6% fs/reiserfs/
> > 	  61.5% fs/
> 
> 
> May I suggest this instead so to get rid of the cumulative option?
> 
>  	   7.6% fs/afs
>  	   7.6% fs/fuse
>  	   7.6% fs/gfs2
>  	   5.1% fs/jffs2
>  	   5.1% fs/nfs
>  	   5.1% fs/nfsd
>  	   7.6% fs/reiserfs
>  	  15.3% fs/
>  	  61.5% fs
> 
> A trailing slash would mean "no recursive, only this directory" and no
> trailing slash means well the opposite :-)

My 2cents: I find that highly counterintuitive (yes, I am a frequent user of "du").

Ciao, Dscho