On 08/02/2015 09:08 AM, David Sauer wrote:
> Package: java-package
> Version: 0.56
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainers,
>
> I have a problem with make-jpkg. I've tracked the issue into function
>
> diskusage() {
> local path="$1"
> read size dummy < <( du -sm "$path" )
> echo "$size:$dummy" >&2
> echo "$size"
> }
>
> which tests size of unpacked java distribution.
>
> The issue is related to OpenVZ guest (and probably doesn't exists on bare hw)
> - `du` tests for disk size of a directory $path, but data have not been
> written to the disk
> at a time of the `du` (`du` returns very small number, nearly 0).
>
> I haved temporarily fixed the problem with a sleep:
>
> diskusage() {
> local path="$1"
> sleep 10 # <------------------------------------ inserted sleep
> read size dummy < <( du -sm "$path" )
> echo "$size:$dummy" >&2
> echo "$size"
> }
>
> but this is a bit dirty solution (it simply waits some time to finish
> write-to-disk operation physically)
> by host container.Hi David, Instead of an arbitrary sleep, could you try using "sync" to flush current buffers. It seems like the container should respect that, and it could be a solution that could work in general. Cheers, tony
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