[OpenAFS] interesting situation

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Tue, 1 Jul 2003 11:31:24 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Klaas Hagemann wrote:

> Hi,
>
> we have lots of home-directories in AFS in our cell and recognized a
> similar problem when a volume fills up. We had some documents getting
> the size of zero.
>
> Now, we only have a workaround: the user gets informed, when there is
> only few space left on his volume.
>
> On the other hand, we realized an erro in the error-codes provides by
> openafs.
> the definition of VDISKFULL is not correct for linux systems. it should
> be 28 instead of 108
>
> here is a patch for openafs-1.2.8, which you could try. I hope it was
> provided to the openafs developers by Suse.

It was not, that I've seen, but I'm going to have to look in context. We
should be able to fix this bug by 1.2.10-release, but it's not clear yet
that the included patch won't have other unintended side effects, notably
on non-Linux platforms.