[OpenAFS] On the wording "No space left on device"

Derrick Brashear shadow@gmail.com
Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:34:39 -0500


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On Jan 29, 2008 1:25 PM, Jeff Blaine <jblaine@kickflop.net> wrote:

> We had a user complain this week about having no clue what
> "No space left on device" meant.
>

Not to mock them, seriously... english was their second language? I am just
curious, it made perfect sense to me in 1991 but I get the idea there are
lots of wordings in the AFS code which derive from things you'd hear in
Pittsburgh, in particular, and, guess where I was?

However, in this case we can't take credit:
#define ENOSPC          28              /* No space left on device */


> Regardless of this particular user's inability to deduce
> that there was "NO SPACE LEFT", I like to take these
> opportunities to consider improvements.
>
> "Disk, partition, or volume has insufficient free space"
>
> Better yet, why does it have to be so vague?  Can't it
> determine the actual problem, at least for the 90% case
> of quota limit?
>


It's a unix error. I can't get (Apple,Sun,Linux,HP,SGI) to fix it.

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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 29, 2008 1:25 PM, Jeff Blaine &lt;<a href="mailto:jblaine@kickflop.net">jblaine@kickflop.net</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
We had a user complain this week about having no clue what<br>&quot;No space left on device&quot; meant.<br></blockquote><div><br>Not to mock them, seriously... english was their second language? I am just curious, it made perfect sense to me in 1991 but I get the idea there are lots of wordings in the AFS code which derive from things you&#39;d hear in Pittsburgh, in particular, and, guess where I was?<br>
<br>However, in this case we can&#39;t take credit:<br>#define ENOSPC&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 28&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; /* No space left on device */<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Regardless of this particular user&#39;s inability to deduce<br>that there was &quot;NO SPACE LEFT&quot;, I like to take these<br>opportunities to consider improvements.<br><br>&quot;Disk, partition, or volume has insufficient free space&quot;<br>
<br>Better yet, why does it have to be so vague? &nbsp;Can&#39;t it<br>determine the actual problem, at least for the 90% case<br>of quota limit?<br></blockquote><div><br><br>It&#39;s a unix error. I can&#39;t get (Apple,Sun,Linux,HP,SGI) to fix it.<br>
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