[Nagiosplug-devel] RFC: check_disk trying to be clever re: mountpoints

[John P. Rouillard]

In message <7126EF02-E249-408F-918D-05135BE639E7 at mac.com>,
Ton Voon writes:
>On 18 May 2006, at 17:03, sean finney wrote:
>
>> i think what happened was at some point (1.4.2 maybe?), this behaviour
>> disappeared.  i recieved a couple bugs about it in the debian BTS, so
>> i added a patch that the restores the functionality, if my memory
>> servers me correctly.
>
>John has come down on "this behaviour is wrong" with a good example  
>of why, which I am swaying towards. Sean, is there a good counter- 
>example for when this behaviour is desirable?

Since Sean had a couple of bug reports he has a couple of use cases in
the opposite direction. I can see it being useful if you have systems
that mix directory/mount points. E.G. on some systems /tmp is a mount
point and on other's it sits on the root filesystem. Still valid to
make sure you have at least 100G free space in either case.

I handle that by a masochistic set of hostgroups and set algebra so I
have different checks on the two system types. Others may not want to.

				-- rouilj
John Rouillard
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