[OpenAFS] CopyOnWrite failed: Partition ... may be out of free inodes(errno = 2)

[Alf Wachsmann]

On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Stefaan wrote:
> > On 9/19/06, Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz@cmu.edu> wrote:
> >> Don't do this.  It doesn't work on namei systems, doesn't gain you
> >> anything, and is a waste of disk space.  RW and RO sites on the same server
> >> should always be on the same partition.
> >
> > Doesn't gain me anything?  I was thinking, if the disk behind vicepa
> > crashes, the one behind vicepb may still be alive, or am I missing
> > something here?
>
> Well, it does gain you something. It gains you a fileserver which
> doesn't want to attach those volumes. So,  instead, don't do it if you
> don't want to gain that. How's that?

Is this considered a bug and will be fixed eventually or is it a
"feature" of the namei file server?

-- Alf.

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