Re: corruption

Linus Torvalds
2000-11-29T19:09:45Z

On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > That still leaves the SCSI corruption, which could not have been due to
> > > the request issue. What's the pattern there for people?
>
> one more thing I remember when this happened:
>
> a) lots of ld processes from kernel compilation were failing with ENOSPC
> although df(1) was showing plenty of memory and I could manually "touch
> ok" in the same filesystem just fine.
>
> b) immediately restarting "make -j4 bzImage" would go on for quite a bit
> and then hit the same set of .c files and "run out of space" again.

Ehh, this is a stupid question, but I've had that happen too, and it
turned out my /tmp filesystem was full, and it runs out of space only with
certain large link cases (never anything else, because all the other
stages of compilation are done with -pipe and do not use /tmp files).

I'm embarrassed to even mention this, but I'v ebeen confused myself.

Linus