[mythtv-users] Disk Space Way Wrong

[Raymond Wagner]

On 4/20/2012 11:58, Mark Lord wrote:
> On 12-04-20 09:02 AM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>> On 4/19/2012 22:35, Mark Lord wrote:
>>> On 12-04-19 10:04 PM, Gavin Hurlbut wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Mark Lord<mythtv at rtr.ca>   wrote:
>>>>> Most likely it's the old bug whereby Mythtv shows the space free
>>>>> on the root filesystem rather than on the filesystem where
>>>>> recordings are kept.
>>>> What old bug is that?  I do not recall ever having seen this.  Got a
>>>> trac ticket number?
>>> Nope.  It just reports wrong on every system I've set up,
>>> always showing the root partition free space instead of
>>> where the recordings are kept.
>>>
>>> I think perhaps it trips up on symlinks or something.
>>
>> Here is the code in question.
>>
>> https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/blob/master/mythtv/libs/libmythbase/mythcoreutil.cpp#L39
>>
>> It's not doing anything fancy, it just runs statfs on the path you give it.
>
> There's the bug.  It should open the path, and the use fstatfs(fd, ..).
> Doing it that way would make symlinks transparent to it, as they should be.

So less a bug, and more a feature request (with a patch) for a strange 
and uncommon configuration.