[1646] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Ted's patch to fix cache corruption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Sun Apr 6 13:47:28 1997
To: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>, linux-dev@MIT.EDU, linux-afs-bugs@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 06 Apr 1997 13:47:05 -0400
In-Reply-To: Derek Atkins's message of 06 Apr 1997 11:23:14 -0400
Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU> writes:
> It's just AFS's design to fail... It expects the space you tell it it
> has to actually be there. By the time it finds out there isn't any
> more space, its too late for the kernel to do anything. I guess I
> could have the kernel panic in this case instead of corrupting files,
> but I'm not convinced that would be a better solution.
Here's an idea: instead of panicking or corrupting files, the AFS code
should print an error message and set a flag causing all AFS
operations to fail cleanly. Then nothing is corrupted and people can
save their buffers to some other filesystem.
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