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Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 10:54:15 -0800
From: Leonid Kalev <lion@3tera.com>
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To: Sumit Narayan <talk2sumit@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Error while copying file on a new filesystem
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Sumit Narayan wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am involved in development of a new file system. I can successfully
>write/read on the filesystem partition. But when I copy or move a
>file, I get this error:
>
>[root@sumit /mnt/newfs]# mv /root/1 .
>mv: writing `/mnt/newfs/1': No space left on device
>
>And although I get this error, the file is successfully copied to the
>directory and I can read the file properly after that.
>
>Can somebody please explain why this is happening. 'df' shows that
>there are free available inodes/disk space. I am using device
>virtualization to provide a single mount point for multiple devices.
>
>  
>
I would venture to guess that your filesystem handler for 'write' 
returned 0 as the number of bytes written, even though it wrote all the 
data successfully (as you say, you can read it afterwards).

regards,

Leo

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