diff --git a/src/api2/admin/datastore.rs b/src/api2/admin/datastore.rs
index 5448fa10..eb1a4511 100644
--- a/src/api2/admin/datastore.rs
+++ b/src/api2/admin/datastore.rs
@@ -629,7 +629,7 @@ fn get_snapshots_count(store: &Arc<DataStore>, owner: Option<&Authid>) -> Result
     },
 )]
 /// Get datastore status.
-pub fn status(
+pub async fn status(
     store: String,
     verbose: bool,
     _info: &ApiMethod,
@@ -674,7 +674,7 @@ pub fn status(
     };
 
     Ok(if store_stats {
-        let storage = proxmox_sys::fs::fs_info(&datastore.base_path())?;
+        let storage = crate::tools::fs::fs_info(datastore.base_path()).await?;
         DataStoreStatus {
             total: storage.total,
             used: storage.used,
diff --git a/src/api2/node/status.rs b/src/api2/node/status.rs
index 65d1ec1b..4cf5e696 100644
--- a/src/api2/node/status.rs
+++ b/src/api2/node/status.rs
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ impl std::convert::From<procfs::ProcFsCPUInfo> for NodeCpuInformation {
     },
 )]
 /// Read node memory, CPU and (root) disk usage
-fn get_status(
+async fn get_status(
     _param: Value,
     _info: &ApiMethod,
     _rpcenv: &mut dyn RpcEnvironment,
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ fn get_status(
         std::str::from_utf8(uname.version().as_bytes())?
     );
 
-    let disk = proxmox_sys::fs::fs_info(proxmox_lang::c_str!("/"))?;
+    let disk = crate::tools::fs::fs_info_static(proxmox_lang::c_str!("/")).await?;
 
     Ok(NodeStatus {
         memory,
diff --git a/src/api2/status.rs b/src/api2/status.rs
index 8b97bef9..0f2e42d6 100644
--- a/src/api2/status.rs
+++ b/src/api2/status.rs
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ use crate::backup::can_access_any_namespace;
     },
 )]
 /// List Datastore usages and estimates
-pub fn datastore_status(
+pub async fn datastore_status(
     _param: Value,
     _info: &ApiMethod,
     rpcenv: &mut dyn RpcEnvironment,
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ pub fn datastore_status(
                 continue;
             }
         };
-        let status = proxmox_sys::fs::fs_info(&datastore.base_path())?;
+        let status = crate::tools::fs::fs_info(datastore.base_path()).await?;
 
         let mut entry = DataStoreStatusListItem {
             store: store.clone(),
diff --git a/src/tools/fs.rs b/src/tools/fs.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4eab0d56
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/tools/fs.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+use std::ffi::CStr;
+use std::path::PathBuf;
+
+use anyhow::{format_err, Error};
+use tokio::task::spawn_blocking;
+
+/// `proxmox_sys::fs::fs_into` wrapped in a `spawn_blocking` call.
+pub async fn fs_info(path: PathBuf) -> Result<proxmox_sys::fs::FileSystemInformation, Error> {
+    Ok(spawn_blocking(move || proxmox_sys::fs::fs_info(&path))
+        .await
+        .map_err(|err| format_err!("error waiting for fs_info call: {err}"))??)
+}
+
+/// `proxmox_sys::fs::fs_into` wrapped in a `spawn_blocking` call.
+///
+/// We cannot use `&'static CStr` in the above as we get from `proxmox_lang::c_str!` because
+/// `NixPath` is only implemented directly on `CStr`, not on `&CStr`.
+pub async fn fs_info_static(
+    path: &'static CStr,
+) -> Result<proxmox_sys::fs::FileSystemInformation, Error> {
+    Ok(spawn_blocking(move || proxmox_sys::fs::fs_info(path))
+        .await
+        .map_err(|err| format_err!("error waiting for fs_info call: {err}"))??)
+}
diff --git a/src/tools/mod.rs b/src/tools/mod.rs
index 8ac73d6e..35946bd6 100644
--- a/src/tools/mod.rs
+++ b/src/tools/mod.rs
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ use proxmox_http::{client::SimpleHttp, client::SimpleHttpOptions, ProxyConfig};
 pub mod apt;
 pub mod config;
 pub mod disks;
+pub mod fs;
 
 mod shared_rate_limiter;
 pub use shared_rate_limiter::SharedRateLimiter;