I think a better metaphor is that the bridge we just crossed has collapsed and as long as we do not need to cross it again our journey should reach its intended destination :-) As I understand the intent of this message is to alert the user (and our support teams) that the directory from which a command was executed no longer exist. Should that be of consequence to the execution of the command then failure is not unexpected, however, many commands do not make use of the current directory so they likely will succeed. If you consider the view point of a command failing because the working directory was removed, but not knowing that was the root cause, I think you can see why this message was added into the administration infrastructure. It allows this odd failure scenario to be quickly recognized saving time for both the user and IBM support, in tracking down the root cause.
Regards, The Spectrum Scale (GPFS) team ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you feel that your question can benefit other users of Spectrum Scale (GPFS), then please post it to the public IBM developerWroks Forum at https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/forum?id=11111111-0000-0000-0000-000000000479 . If your query concerns a potential software error in Spectrum Scale (GPFS) and you have an IBM software maintenance contract please contact 1-800-237-5511 in the United States or your local IBM Service Center in other countries. The forum is informally monitored as time permits and should not be used for priority messages to the Spectrum Scale (GPFS) team. From: "Billich Heinrich Rainer (ID SD)" <[email protected]> To: gpfsug main discussion list <[email protected]> Date: 09/07/2020 09:29 AM Subject: [EXTERNAL] [gpfsug-discuss] Best of spectrum scale Sent by: [email protected] Hi, just came across this: /usr/lpp/mmfs/bin/mmafmctl fs3101 getstate mmafmctl: Invalid current working directory detected: /tmp/A The command may fail in an unexpected way. Processing continues .. It’s like a bus driver telling you that the brakes don’t work and next speeding up even more. Honestly, why not just fail with a nice error messages …. Don’t tell some customer asked for this to make the command more resilient … Cheers, Heiner -- ======================= Heinrich Billich ETH Zürich Informatikdienste Tel.: +41 44 632 72 56 [email protected] ======================== _______________________________________________ gpfsug-discuss mailing list gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss
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