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

[Ton Voon]

Hi!

Wanted an opinion on check_disk. maemigh raised a tracker where  
check_disk was unexpectedly excluding the root filesystem: http:// 
sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? 
func=detail&aid=1485816&group_id=29880&atid=397597

It seems to me that the problem is in the walk_name_list function,  
where it is trying to be clever about which filesystems actually  
needs to be checked. This is to support "check_disk -p /etc" so that  
this returns data for /.

Given that check_disk is a sysadmin tool and not a user tool, I think  
"check_disk -p /non/existent/filesystem" should only match exact  
filesystem names. However, this may break current usage of check_disk.

Any opinions?

Ton

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