On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:26:44 -0600
Charles Duffy <charles@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Howdy. With a very heavily loaded (CentOS 5 - Linux 2.6.18-128.el5)
> NFSv3 client and server, I've experienced the following sporadic issue:
>
> function atomic_write() {
> local filename="$1"
> local tempfile
> tempfile="$(mktemp "${filename}.XXXXXX")"
> cat >"${tempfile}" && mv "${tempfile}" "${filename}"
> }
>
> $ atomic_write /mnt/foobar <<<"baz"
> mv: cannot move `/mnt/foobar.gO1881' to `/mnt/foobar': No such file or
> directory
>
> Are my assumptions regarding available semantics fair and reasonable?
>
Known problem with O_EXCL creates. Fixed in RHEL fairly recently. You
probably want a newer kernel.
--
Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
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