[10542] in Athena Bugs
Re: decmips 7.4H: mv going way over quota rm's file
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ezra Peisach)
Mon Jun 7 16:56:59 1993
To: Keith `M' Swartz <solo26@Athena.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU, ultrix@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 06 Jun 93 00:06:26 -0400.
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 93 16:56:47 EDT
From: Ezra Peisach <epeisach@Athena.MIT.EDU>
>What were you trying to do?
> move a >3 Meg file from /usr/tmp to my home directory.
> I was approximately 1.4 Meg under my quota limit.
>What's wrong:
> An error "afs: failed to store file" appeared, and it was clear,
> the file did not copy. In addition, and here's the real problem,
> IT REMOVED THE FILE FROM THE ORIGINAL LOCATION.
>What should have happened:
> It should not have removed the file from /usr/tmp, since the move
> was NOT successful.
Your bug is fixed in ultrix 4.3.
If this summer's release has 4.3, then you are golden....
From the sources:
> * 5) - 08-Aug-91 - Sue LeVan (SEL1)
> * Make mv check that it can close the output file and if
> * not print an error message and delete the bad output file.
> * For consistency's sake, unlink the output file when other fatal
> * errors occur - QAR 280.
Ezra
