On Thu 02 Apr 2009 at 09:17AM, James Carlson wrote:
> Danek Duvall writes:
> > On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 08:56:38AM -0400, James Carlson wrote:
> > > (And the failure mode is just awful ... being stuck with so little
> > > disk space left that you can't delete things to get back out of that
> > > state is ungood.)
> >
> > True. One thing might have been to rsync a bunch of zero-length files on
> > top of what was there, which might have freed enough space to do the
> > rename.
>
> Cool "now why didn't I think of that?" trick. But whatever fs is
> under this system, I still it should probably have some contingency
> mechanism to deal with file delete requests when really low on space.
It's ZFS, but the underlying OS is impressively old. I can't speculate
whether newer ZFS bits would help.
I'm a little swamped today on higher priority tasks, but will try
to look at this more tonight.
-dp
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Daniel Price, Solaris Kernel Engineering http://blogs.sun.com/dp
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