On Friday, July 26, 2013 09:29:41 PM Eric Sandeen wrote: > On 7/26/13 3:13 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > > A quick way to check whether your package is likely to be affected, is > > to look for statfs() or statvfs() calls in C, or the equivalent in > > your higher-level library / programming language. > > statfs will still tell you how much space the filesystem has allocated, > as well as how much space it thinks it has left, based on the total > space the disk has *said* it has available, just like it always ever > did. > > The difference, of course, is that you might actually run out of blocks > before you fill the fs. But I can't think offhand what apps would care. > And again, it's something the admin shouldn't let happen. The audit system also cares about space available. We tell people to create a partition specifically for auditing so that we can keep close track on what's left. But we have the requirement that for people that depend on it to "take away" system access should the ability to record audit events fail. We also need an accurate estimation before we run out so we can send an admin defined warning when the disk has filled to a certain point so that they can archive files or make space available. If we run out of disk space and were not able to warn admins and this was a shop that really cares about auditing, the system will either be shutdown or sent to single user mode for corrective action. So, having accurate space left numbers is real important so that systems don't get shutdown unexpectedly. -Steve > For now, consider it completely transparent to the user (unless the > admin doesn't keep up, in which case it will be anything *but* > transparent). > > TBH, when the backing store runs out of space, things do get pretty > ugly at this point. It's work that needs to be done to make it more > robust & graceful. > > -Eric > > > Mirek -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
