[receiver/hostmetrics] Do not require the whole filesystem to be available for the filesystem scraper

[atoulme]

Component(s)

receiver/hostmetrics

What happened?

The filesystem scraper requires read access to all mount points. Is it possible to avoid this requirement?

Collector version

v0.108.0

Environment information

Environment

OS: (e.g., "Ubuntu 20.04")
Compiler(if manually compiled): (e.g., "go 14.2")

OpenTelemetry Collector configuration

No response

Log output

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Additional context

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• receiver/hostmetrics: @dmitryax @braydonk

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[atoulme]

The issue comes from the use of gopsutil to get the filesystem usage.

for _, partition := range partitions {
		if !s.fsFilter.includePartition(partition) {
			continue
		}
		translatedMountpoint := translateMountpoint(s.config.RootPath, partition.Mountpoint)
		usage, usageErr := s.usage(ctx, translatedMountpoint)
		if usageErr != nil {
			errors.AddPartial(0, fmt.Errorf("failed to read usage at %s: %w", translatedMountpoint, usageErr))
			continue
		}

		usages = append(usages, &deviceUsage{partition, usage})
	}

The call to usage goes to gopsutil which makes this call:

func UsageWithContext(ctx context.Context, path string) (*UsageStat, error) {
	stat := unix.Statfs_t{}
	err := unix.Statfs(path, &stat)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

This calls the equivalent of statfs: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/statfs.2.html

The statfs() system call returns information about a mounted
       filesystem.  path is the pathname of any file within the mounted
       filesystem.  buf is a pointer to a statfs structure defined
       approximately as follows:

           struct statfs {
               __fsword_t f_type;    /* Type of filesystem (see below) */
               __fsword_t f_bsize;   /* Optimal transfer block size */
               fsblkcnt_t f_blocks;  /* Total data blocks in filesystem */
               fsblkcnt_t f_bfree;   /* Free blocks in filesystem */
               fsblkcnt_t f_bavail;  /* Free blocks available to
                                        unprivileged user */
               fsfilcnt_t f_files;   /* Total inodes in filesystem */
               fsfilcnt_t f_ffree;   /* Free inodes in filesystem */
               fsid_t     f_fsid;    /* Filesystem ID */
               __fsword_t f_namelen; /* Maximum length of filenames */
               __fsword_t f_frsize;  /* Fragment size (since Linux 2.6) */
               __fsword_t f_flags;   /* Mount flags of filesystem
                                        (since Linux 2.6.36) */
               __fsword_t f_spare[xxx];
                               /* Padding bytes reserved for future use */
           };

We have to find the equivalent information of statfs without having access to the mountpoint itself.

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