[ale] Re: 1/3 full disk, but it is full?

[Joseph A. Knapka]

hirsch at zapmedia.com wrote:
> 
> Thanks for everyones suggestions on this problem.  Unfortunately, or
> maybe fortunately, I went on vacation the day after the problem
> arose.  In my absence we've found out:
> 
> If a thread has a file descriptor open and the file is removed, but
> the thread does not exit cleanly, the filenam is gone from the
> filesystem, but the the disk space is not released.  This is true at
> least in reiserfs, and maybe in other fses, too.

A lot of commonly-used software depends on deletion of open files
working correctly, so I expect this is a bug in Reiserfs, rather
than in the VFS code. If it was a problem in ext2 someone probably
would have noticed :-)
 
> Our application was creating large temporary files, then deleting
> them, but not successfully ending the thread, so we gradually lost
> room on our filesystem.
> 
> --Michael
> 

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