On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:46:59AM -0700, Shih-Hao Li wrote:
> > It might be worth documenting how to avoid the cap if the user really
> > wants to (it looks like outputting to a fd instead of a file avoids
> > it?).
> 
> How about adding a new parameter, such as the percentage of free disk
> space allowed to use?  If it is 0, then no check. By default, always
> check and use 90 regardless output_fd or output_file cases.

OK.

> > > +def get_free_disk_space(path):
> > > + path = os.path.abspath(path)
> > > + while not os.path.ismount(path):
> > > + path = os.path.dirname(path)
> > > + s = os.statvfs(path)
> > > + return s.f_frsize * s.f_bfree
> 
> > What is the reason for chaining up to a mount point? All the
> > documentation I see says that statvfs returns information about the file
> > system containing the provided path and doesn't mention special
> > importance of mount points
> I actually borrowed the code from another NVP script. 
> I think ismount may not do much here, but it does help tracking down to a 
> valid path 
> because we haven't created the tar file at this time. 

OK, the 'dirname' makes sense then.  I still don't think the ismount
chain is necessary.
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