Kevin Grittner wrote:
Peter Brant, a consultant working with us, has written code which is working for this under both Linux and Windows. [...] For Linux, he used statvfs.
statvfs(2) is standardized, but doesn't seem portable: it isn't available on OSX 10.3, NetBSD 2.0 or OpenBSD, for example. Perhaps you can fallback to statfs(2) when it is available?
This seems an area where providing consistent cross-platform behavior might be difficult. Do we actually need this functionality inside the DBMS in the first place?
(2) If not, is it acceptable for a source file to contain that much #if code for Windows?
Let's see the code first...
(3) What data type should be used to report total space and free space for each volume?
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