Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1392260
gnome-settings-daemon shows false low free disk space alerts for GPFS mounts
Last modified: 2018-05-17 10:39:45 EDT
Description of problem: gnome-settings-daemon shows false low free space alerts for GPFS mounts with very large disk space. The alert shows up intermittently since it requires a GPFS filesystem to become fairly full. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-settings-daemon-3.14.4-9.el7.x86_64 How reproducible: Frequently Additional info: Previously customer has reported this issue on RHEL6. A bug (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253770) was filed and closed due to inactivity from customer's end.
Same as: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708786 for BTRFS
I wonder why do you think this is GVfs issue. AFAIK settings-daemon uses GUnixMountMonitor, which is implemented in GLib/GIO, and free space is based on statvfs output. So, GVfs is not involved at all. Similar for the upstream issue, see: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708786#c23
I do think that g-s-d should check free space per device path and not per mount path. Similarly for g-c-c. This should fix the multiple warnings issue and wrong total size info at least for some filesystem types (i.e. BTRFS). I have no idea, how GPFS works and what is wrong with it, because the bug report is pretty brief, but we can probably ignore such obscure filesystem types in g-s-d / g-c-c if the previous suggestion doesn't help...
See proposed patches in the upstream bug...
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:0770