On 12/4/15 9:21 AM, Emmanuel Hugonnet wrote:
Le 04/12/2015 16:08, Brian Stansberry a écrit :
> On 12/4/15 6:41 AM, Emmanuel Hugonnet wrote:
>> Keeping only the relevant parts, remarks inlined :
>>
>>>> * for space availability this might depend on the different mount
points:
>>>> - should we provide it for every path since we wouldn't know
in advance to which mount point each path is on
>>>
>>> I don't understand this question. How were you planning to get the space
>>> availability information?
>>>
>>> My instinct is the closer this conforms to what the standard java (n)io
>>> API provides the better.
>>>
>>
>> What I mean is that since we don't know to which mount point/drive each path
is using, we would have to define the space availability per
>> path instead of as a global metric/value.
>
> I don't think we should try to do any kind of aggregation or analytical work. A
path resolves to a File and a File reports getUsableSpace().
> If a user looks at two paths on the same partition and double counts by assuming he
can use that much for each path, that's a user error.
> But it's kind of a "duh" kind of error, so long as we document the
semantic (including a reference to the JDK javadoc we rely upon) and are
> careful about how the data is presented in any UI. The UI is probably the bigger
problem.
>
>> So I was wondering if this is really something that makes sense. Which explains
the next question aka are these informations valuable.
>>
>
> That I don't know, but it seems useful. It provides information that a a user can
then reason with, either well or poorly. It's not rocket
> science to reason intelligently though.
>
> I rarely object to not including something that hasn't been specifically asked
for though, so I don't mind not including this if no one
> makes a case for it.
Basically we can iterate over the filestore aka partitions/drives so we could display
this info in a centralized point.
Users should use machine administration tools for that kind of thing.
>
>>>> - or maybe this info is not that important
>>>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Emmanuel
>>
>
>
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Brian Stansberry
Senior Principal Software Engineer
JBoss by Red Hat