bugzilla unwell?

Avi Kivity avi at argo.co.il
Sat Jul 8 07:48:36 UTC 2006


Jesse Keating wrote:
>> AGAIN! Incredible. You think they'd learn. I'll file a bug when it works
>> again.
>>     
>
> Again what?  The last bugzilla outage was due to double disk failure, not 
> running out of disk space.  Running out of space is sometimes unavoidable if 
> something spins out of control and fills it all at once.  Yes notifications 
> are possible, and probably already made, but it may have been too late.  So 
> I'm not quite sure what we're supposed to "learn" here, but thanks for your 
> input.
>   

Well, it does look as if something's ignoring the ENOSPC, only to fail 
later with an obscure error message.

It would be both more user friendly and safe to catch the error when it 
occurs and handle it gracefully.

-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.




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