On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 08:01:23AM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Jul 29, 2013, at 6:30 AM, "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Yep, we need to be able to report free space on filesystems, so that > > apps provisioning virtual machines can get an idea of how much storage > > they can provide to VMs without risk of over comitting. > > > > I agree that we really want the kernel, or at least a reusable shared > > library, to provide some kind of interface to determine this, rather > > than requiring every userspace app which cares to re-invent the wheel. > > What does it mean for an app to use stat to get free space, and then > proceeds to create too big a VM image in a directory that has a > quota set? I still think apps are asking an > inappropriate/unqualified question by asking for volume free space, > instead of what's available to them for a specified path. libvirt only does what users (or applications) ask of it. The problem is that the information is not available to give to users/ applications so they can make a good decision. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
