Steam Client Linux Beta Has A Fix For ZFS

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Steam Client Linux Beta Has A Fix For ZFS

Valve released a Steam client beta for Halloween 2016 beta, but without any apparent spooks...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Steam-Client-Halloween-Beta

[eydee]

Always nice to be able to install 5000 indie games into a ZFS partition.

[ElectricPrism]

Also Dual Shock 4 support

[Staffan]

Why do they need to know the sector size at all?

[tajjada]

Always nice to be able to install 5000 indie games into a glorious 12-HDD RAIDZ ZFS zpool.

FTFY

[Ardje]

Why do they need to know the sector size at all?

The statfs api allows to request the number of available blocks, and the blocksize. There is no such api as "give me amount of free bytes".

[droste]

Why do they need to know the sector size at all?

Steam preallocates the space needed for the installation of a game/update before downloading and installing it. Maybe they use this info there.
AFAIK the preallocation is done to make sure there's enough space left and to reduce fragmentation.

[Staffan]

The statfs api allows to request the number of available blocks, and the blocksize. There is no such api as "give me amount of free bytes".

I see, then it makes sense in that context. Seems like a crappy API though that doesn't take into account filesystems with variable block sizes (which was probably a reasonable assumption at the time).