[noctool-devel] DISK-MONITOR class question

[Ingvar]

Jim Prewett writes:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm cureous as to why the DISK-MONITOR class has the slots: DISK-USED & 
> INODES-USED whose accessors are DISK-FREE and INODES-FREE and initargs are 
> :DISK-FREE and :INODES-FREE.
> 
> This seems a *tad* confusing to me, especially whereas df reports used 
> blocks and available blocks and the DISK-USED slot seems to be storing the 
> *free* blocks.

I suspect this is one of those lovely artefacts that comes from "start coding, 
then think". It's probably best to just rename the slots, as I believe 
accessors and initargs all are "...-FREE"
 
> The INODES-USED slot seems to be, at this point, unused, so I'm not sure 
> if it is also backwards :)  The naming does seem a bit strange as well. :)

They are, they possibly shouldn't be. Though inode starvation is much less 
common than storage starvation (unless you use lots of small files, with a 
file system that has an inode allocation for a much larger "average file" 
size).

//Ingvar