https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=291324#c3
Richard Creighton changed:
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--- Comment #3 from Richard Creighton 2007-07-12 05:06:51 MST ---
Thank you for your response Stephan. If what you are saying is true,
then it is not a bug in the classic sense, but it is a design deficiency
of significance. This system has a small 120G drive to boot the
system from and 1.1TB for data and programs, none of which is accounted
for in the display of 'My Computer'. This means that one has to use
other means to determine the state of their machine (and impress
visiting Windoze junkies). The raid device and LVMs are mounted at
boot time and are listed in /etc/fstab just as any other physical hard
drive is and the raid device shows up when you display 'mount' in
terminal. SYSINFO should NOT depend on HAL or any other mechanism
that excludes important and significant portions of system resources.
In fact, in this case, almost 99% of the available disk space resource
is unaccounted for in the 'My Computer' / Sysinfo display. To me, this
is a bug in program design if not one caused by a programming error
causing a system to malfunction. This program is not doing what it
advertises to be doing because it is not providing all of the pertinent
system information accurately in this case, apparently by erroneous
design. As systems become larger and raid and LVMs become
increasingly common, it makes sense that all system resources should be
treated equally by reporting mechanisms such as SYSINFO especially when
'lower' or lesser programs can do it.
Today in our Windoze centric society, I really enjoy being able to
show the 'unwashed masses' that one does not need M$ to do *anything*,
but they aren't impressed when I have to drop to a command line
interface to find out how much system resources I have left or bring up
2 or three other programs to do what 1 very nice and impressive program
*should* have shown. They *used* to be impressed on my other machines
that didn't have a RAID or LVM but guffawed me when they gleefully
pointed out that my new system that had a 1.1TB storage system couldn't
display it.
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