[PVFS-users] crash when no place left

[Rob Ross]

Hi,

Thanks for the problem report!  It is normal for the mgr to not log 
anything in this case -- the mgr is not involved in write operations.

I'll see if I can replicate this here.

Thanks,

Rob

On Tue, 18 May 2004 Stadrim.DRIM.CETMEF at i-carre.net wrote:

> I have 10 nodes running the iod server with 60 Go on each and one
> other running the mgr server.
> 
> On a client (with pvfsd and the kernel module), if I try to copy a
> file when all the servers are full, the cp command never returns. It is
> impossible to kill this command (SIGKILL doesn't work), but killing
> the mgr process works some time, in the worth case, I have to reboot
> the client. I think that the kernel module waits for something that
> never happens.
> 
> In the log files, I found that all the iod servers notice that there is
> no place left on their local partition, but not the mgr or the pvfsd
> on the client.
> 
> In the mgr log file, there is a lot of "md_stat: lstat:: No such file
> or directory", nothing in the client's log.
> 
> Pvfs run on a Mandrake 9.0 with a custom kernel 2.4.26 and pvfs 1.6.2