Yaakov Nemoy wrote: > Hey list, > > I'm looking to get some input on a feature that was requested of > Smolt. One file system engineer wants to collect some basic data > about file systems in use, for fine tuning the default settings in > Fedora and RHEL. This is something that we can all benefit by, and > the greater participation we give, the better the results are going to > be for everyone. To hilight the information to be collected, actions > speak louder than words: > > yankee@dao:~$ sudo stat -f /dev/main/fedora8 > File: "/dev/main/fedora8" > ID: 0 Namelen: 255 Type: tmpfs > Block size: 4096 Fundamental block size: 4096 > Blocks: Total: 258215 Free: 258199 Available: 258199 > Inodes: Total: 223935 Free: 222932 > > (Actually I think something might be broken, that data doesn't look > correct for me) I think you sorted it out, but: stat the mountpoint not the dev... :) > In short, it will collect a list of file systems + types, and their usage stats. > > For the time being the stats won't be published on the web site. > We're having some reporting issues, and I don't want to add another > long running SQL query into the mix. However, anyone will be free to > ask one of us to report on that information. Furthermore, this > information will be enabled by default, for the time being, until we > have thing set up to allow fine grained information hiding. Remember, > all profiles will be anonymous as usual. > > Are there any underlying security or privacy issues here that would be > a clear reason not to do this? Any other comments, or refinements? The only thing I can think of is that while you'd like to report any filesystems in use (so as not to pre-select what you're interested in, and potentially filter out, say, a large unknown community of befs users...) you run the risk of possibly reporting a "secret" filesystem name; for example if suddenly 500 HP machines start reporting that "zfs" is in use, it might make you go "hmmm...." - but, I assume that other things reported by smolt after grepping around the bios run similar risks, and you're not worried about sending out those strings? So ideally I guess I'd like to see essentially df & df -i information for any real (non-loop?) devices in /dev. (well actually I can think of a lot more fs-specific things that would be cool, but I'll be happy with type/size/utilization for now) :) Thanks! -Eric -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
