From: Ray Ferguson Subject: Re: NFSERR_NOSPC nfs-client bug Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:50:21 -0600 Message-ID: <200803172050.22223.nfs@share-foo.com> References: <200803172021.08327.nfs@share-foo.com> <47DF1E5C.9090607@melbourne.sgi.com> Reply-To: nfs-Uh4cUGhLB8SgSpxsJD1C4w@public.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from 71-86-230-38.static.mdsn.wi.charter.com ([71.86.230.38]:40919 "EHLO gw.share-foo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751081AbYCRBuX (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:50:23 -0400 Received: from gw.share-foo.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by postfilter.gw.share-foo.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E287D28093 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:50:06 -0500 (CDT) Received: from booger.localdomain (a7v.localdomain [192.168.0.2]) by gw.share-foo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B671028092 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:50:06 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by booger.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74A511380 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:50:23 -0500 (CDT) In-Reply-To: <47DF1E5C.9090607-cP1dWloDopni96+mSzHFpQC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Monday 17 March 2008 20:43, Greg Banks wrote: > It doesn't ignore ENOSPC, it reports it on close(). Of course this is > often several gigabytes of lost data too late. In our case, the thrashing it gave our Linux NFS cluster was severe enough to take it out of commission. The lost data from the file transfer that triggered the event was the least of our worries. - Ray Ferguson