forwarded 614602 https://github.com/collectd/collectd/pull/1120
thanks

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 04:24:19PM +0100, Rainer Zocholl wrote:
> The log fills is filling up with this missleading error messages below.
> That seems to be caused by too small buffer sizes
> for "DF" filename generation and the usage of df on a loop mount.
>                       
> 
> 1. Maybe a message complaining "File is ready in use" would ease 
>    error finding a lot if this for 99,9% true 
> 2. The buffer length for filename should be made longer or 
> 3. if the filename is to be truncated a warning message should be issued
> 4. The df_plugin should ignore "loop" mounts as the
>    df command is not delivering any data!

https://github.com/collectd/collectd/pull/1120 discusses a new buffer
size and dynamically allocated buffers to solve the issue. Better
warnings would be good but I think the actual issue should really be
fixed.

Cheers,
Sebastian

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