On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > in my opinion the disk metric stuff needs improvement. I personally > would like to see a user supplied list of partitions to monitor.
That would definitely be nice. Right now, I run a cron job that does just that and I turn off all of Ganglia's metrics since they aren't as useful as a per-partition metric. > But for 3.0.2 I am no going to touch this. The Debian "/dev2" hack may > go in, because it is harmless. I didn't expect you to :-) Handling this properly can be tricky, and could require quite a bit of work to the current metrics. I just figured this thread of discussion was a good time to bring it up. > In any case could you open a bugzilla entry, give a description of the > problem and assign to yourself or me? Thanks I will open a bugzilla entry and assign the problem to you. Although, if I find time to work on it, I will go ahead and submit a patch. --Rick
