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

Pádraig Brady P at draigBrady.com
Fri Jul 26 22:53:08 UTC 2013


On 07/26/2013 09:13 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> Hello all,
> with thin provisioning available, the total and free space values
> reported by a filesystem do not necessarily mean that that much space
> is _actually_ available (the actual backing storage may be smaller, or
> shared with other filesystems).
> 
> 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.
> 
> The same applies if your package automatically allocates a certain
> proportion of the total or available space.
> 
> 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.

Anything df(1) should do here?




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