Re: Error while copying file on a new filesystem

[Leonid Kalev]

Sumit Narayan wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am involved in development of a new file system. I can successfully
> write/read on the filesystem partition. But when I copy or move a
> file, I get this error:
>
> [root@sumit /mnt/newfs]# mv /root/1 .
> mv: writing `/mnt/newfs/1': No space left on device
>
> And although I get this error, the file is successfully copied to the
> directory and I can read the file properly after that.
>
> Can somebody please explain why this is happening. 'df' shows that
> there are free available inodes/disk space. I am using device
> virtualization to provide a single mount point for multiple devices.
>
>  
I would venture to guess that your filesystem handler for 'write' 
returned 0 as the number of bytes written, even though it wrote all the 
data successfully (as you say, you can read it afterwards).

regards,

Leo

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