Does your application depend on, or report, free disk space? Re: F20 Self Contained Change: OS Installer Support for LVM Thin Provisioning

[drago01]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Miloslav Trmač <mitr at volny.cz> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 10:17 PM, DJ Delorie <dj at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> If your package reports disk space usage to users, and bases this on
>>> filesystem free space, please consider whether it might need to take
>>> LVM thin provisioning into account.
>>
>> Perhaps you could include a small code snippet explaining *how* to do
>> this?  Is there an lvm_thin_statfs() we can use?
>
> I'd love to, but I don't know how.  David, could you suggest something, please?

The same issue exits for btrfs ... shouldn't we somehow try to get a
generic api for the "exotic" file systems?