On Monday, March 16 2009, Hans de Goede said: > Jeremy Katz wrote: >> On Sunday, March 15 2009, David Lehman said: >>>>> Why not just do a temporary mount somewhere (if not already mounted) and >>>>> run statfs on it? Wouldn't that be simpler?</hand_wave> >>>> It would be. Attached is a new patch. I didn't know we could call >>>> statvfs() from Python (nor did I ever bother to look, but >>>> whatever). >>> Much nicer. >> >> Mounting can entail side effects, though, such as journal recovery and >> has also in some cases ended up with filesystems having new, >> incompatible features enabled. While I guess it's possible that running >> dumpe2fs, etc on a filesystem could do similar things, it just feels a >> lot less likely. > > Another problem is this fails in the livecd case, as for example the live-usb stick > there is usually already (auto) mounted, so this fails with a busy error, leading to > a traceback. Well, in the past, things weren't already auto-mounted. This seems to be a new behavior with DeviceKit-disks that, thus far at least, I haven't found a good way to turn off. Jeremy _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
