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- From: slevy@somerville.geom.umn.edu (Stuart Levy)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: vi on SGI writing to full Sun NFS filesystem sees no error?!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.225355.9670@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 22:53:55 GMT
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- Organization: Geometry Center, University of Minnesota
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- We have chronically full disks (are we alone...?), mostly NFS-served from
- a Sun (SunOS 4.1.1).
-
- Too many people have found that writing out a file on an Iris NFS client --
- from vi, at least -- when the server's disk is full yields no error in vi but
- ends up with a truncated (0-length) file. We have Irises running software
- from 3.3.2 to 4.0.4, and I think they've all participated in this.
-
- Naturally this is a real embarassment. Does anyone know (a) what's
- at fault (is the Sun server not reflecting the error? is the SGI kernel
- not passing it to the application? does vi ignore write errors??)
- or better yet (b) what we can do to fix it?
-
- Stuart Levy, Geometry Center, University of Minnesota
- slevy@geom.umn.edu
-