Asynchronous disk space monitoring

[Orion Poplawski]

On 10/20/2010 04:18 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 15:52, Orion Poplawski<orion at cora.nwra.com>  wrote:
>> Somewhat OT, but not sure where else to ask.  I'm looking into an issue where
>> the nepomuk strigi service is preventing a desktop with an NFS mounted home
>> directory from going into hibernate.  I think this is because it continually
>> checks the available disk space in the home directory (about once every 20
>> seconds in current 4.5.2, once every 10 seconds in 4.4.5).
>
> hibernate + network file systems has always been a rather tough nut .
> NFS is built on the fact that multiple clients may have the same tree
> open at the same time... so if you are going to hibernate you are
> going to need to basicallly unmount because there is no guarentee that
> anything underneath you will be there when you come out of
> hibernation.

Yeah, unfortunately unmounting causes other problems.  See 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=287411


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