Re: (nearly) full hd causes weird and corrupting behaviour of apps and tools

[melodramus@xxxxxxxxx]

On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:14:47 -0400
Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> Deleting the log file isn't enough. You need to restart syslog. The file
> can't really be deleted until all open references of it are gone.
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> As for having space free but unable to use it, please attach the output
> of debugreiserfs -o <dev>
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> I've seen it happen before where a file system becomes badly fragmented
> enough that new objectids can't be represented in the objectid map at
> the start of the file system.

makes me wonder if apps can trust the posix interfaces in case a reiserfs is fragmented badly. will write() write to nil, and is fsync() reliable?

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> - -Jeff

attached are the files before and after reiserfschk


MeloDramus <melodramus@xxxxxxxxx>

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