Re: file open for write fails under stress

[Omry Yadan <omry-FZzTFxfWWV5eoWH0uzbU5w@public.gmane.org>]

J. Bruce Fields wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:51:50AM +0200, Omry Yadan wrote:
>   
>> I have an application that open many files for writing very fast, in a
>> way - it can almost be looked as a file system stress test.
>>
>>
>> my application is single threaded, and I noticed the following problem
>> when running a single instance of it:
>>
>>
>> at some point, after opening (and closing) many files for writing, the
>> application fails to open a file for writing.
>>     
>
> Do you know what error exactly the open is failing with?
>   
As I wrote in a separate message to the list:
the error string is "Input Output error".
I can get the exact errno if you like, but it's probably a generic IO
error code.