RE: [OpenAFS] not enough space in target directory

2013-10-29 Thread Dyer, Rodney
-Original Message- From: openafs-info-ad...@openafs.org [mailto:openafs-info- ad...@openafs.org] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Altman Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2013 3:42 AM To: openafs-info@openafs.org Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] not enough space in target directory On 10/22/2013 12:18 PM, Dyer

Re: [OpenAFS] not enough space in target directory

2013-10-29 Thread Jeffrey Altman
On 10/29/2013 5:19 PM, Dyer, Rodney wrote: We have a problem then, as there is no way that I know of to check what space is left on the device first, then begin writing with a lock on the free space you want. Between the time that you've checked the free space, and you begin writing, you

Re: [OpenAFS] not enough space in target directory

2013-10-27 Thread Jeffrey Altman
On 10/22/2013 12:18 PM, Dyer, Rodney wrote: This problem is affecting us as well. I'm not entirely convinced this problem couldn't be fixed with some AFS client trickery. As you so often like to tell me the application should attempt the operation to the file system and let it fail if it is

RE: [OpenAFS] not enough space in target directory

2013-10-22 Thread Dyer, Rodney
-info-ad...@openafs.org [mailto:openafs-info-ad...@openafs.org] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Altman Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2013 10:27 PM To: Ian Crowther; openafs-info@openafs.org Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] not enough space in target directory On 10/15/2013 7:07 PM, Ian Crowther wrote: One thing I noticed

Re: [OpenAFS] not enough space in target directory

2013-10-21 Thread stephen
Hi Jeff, Thanks for the further clarification of this problem. Your description of the problem below -- and on the MS tech forum back in March -- seems to imply that until this issue is fixed by MS, that there are potential work-arounds that could be taken by the OpenAFS client. Possibly

Re: [OpenAFS] not enough space in target directory

2013-10-19 Thread Jeffrey Altman
On 10/15/2013 12:58 PM, Jack Hill wrote: Also, since it appears that we won't be able to get it fixed, I never said it won't be fixed. I said as with anything else fixing it will be prioritized based upon the number of customers that are impacted and believe it is important to them or their

Re: [OpenAFS] not enough space in target directory

2013-10-19 Thread Jeffrey Altman
On 10/15/2013 7:07 PM, Ian Crowther wrote: One thing I noticed in my case was that process monitor reported that explorer checked free space on the root volume instead of the volume that was being written to. That is the underlying problem. Instead of using GetVolumeInformationByHandleW()

Re: [OpenAFS] not enough space in target directory

2013-10-14 Thread Christian
Jeffrey, thanks for the hint. I had been blaming this on myself, suspecting something was not correctly configured. Now I have a really dumb question: is this one of the things you can only do with a support contract? Or via connect.microsoft.com? Is there any additional information I should

Re: [OpenAFS] not enough space in target directory

2013-10-14 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Christian, Feel free to make noise wherever you wish but the reality is that when Microsoft has a the choice to make between developers spending time on the Shell and addressing bugs with its own tools (SkyDrive, ReFS, etc) or those of third party products, Microsoft is going to focus on its own

Re: [OpenAFS] not enough space in target directory

2013-10-14 Thread Christian
Jeffrey, Hm. Sorry if I wasn't clear. I am not sure if we have a support contract or not. I am just a part-time sysadmin at a University institute. My main job is running a research group in physics. I hadn't been able to find out from the central IT people at the University level whether we have

[OpenAFS] not enough space in target directory

2013-10-04 Thread Christian
All, we are seeing some weird issues with the windows client (1.7.26, but hat also seen that with previous 1.7 versions). Often, when attempting to write data, my users get a popup box complaining about insufficient space in the target directory. In those cases, writing the data to the RW

Re: [OpenAFS] not enough space in target directory

2013-10-04 Thread Jeffrey Altman
File a bug report with Microsoft if the problem is experienced when using the explorer shell or applications relying upon the shell api for file access. This is a known bug in the explorer shell and Microsoft has been working on it for more than six months. As with all Windows bugs, a fix is