CNFS offset problems

Bettina Fink laura at hydrophil.de
Mon Jan 20 19:35:13 UTC 2003


Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> wrote:

>>> Dec 28 18:51:56 puck innd: CNFS-sm: CNFSUsedBlock: invalid offset 9c4600, 
>>> min = 4000, max = 9c4000

>> The same happened to one of my test boxes:
> 
> Yeah, I just had it happen to my test system too.  It's like it sometimes
> loses track of where the end of the cycbuff is.  I have four disk files
> used as cycbuffs, each 1GB in length, and during the second cycle on the
> fourth one it just kept writing to it until it reached 2GB and died.
> 
> Are either of you using SEQUENTIAL?  And are you using disk files or block
> devices?

a). Yes:

metacycbuff:TRASHY:ONE,TWO,THREE,FOUR,FIVE:SEQUENTIAL

-rw-r--r--    1 news     news     104857600 Jan 20 12:28 two
-rw-r--r--    1 news     news     104857600 Jan 20 15:01 three
-rw-r--r--    1 news     news     104857600 Jan 20 17:39 four
-rw-r--r--    1 news     news     104857600 Jan 20 20:15 five
-rw-r--r--    1 news     news     104857600 Jan 20 20:33 one

The buffers on that machine are just for cycling binary and
cancel stuff. The rest of the spool is stored in timecaf.

b). Disk files.

Bye,
Bettina


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