[Fedora-ia64-list] Re: Too many subdirectories under /mnt/koji/work/tasks/
Doug Chapman
doug.chapman at hp.com
Tue Jun 10 15:04:50 UTC 2008
On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 22:45 +0800, Zhan, Yi wrote:
> Hi Doug,
>
> I hit the error "exceptions.OSError: [Errno 31] Too many links:
> '/mnt/koji/work/tasks/75012'" hundreds times today when catching up with
> x86's dist-f10. See
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=418705,
> http://ia64.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=75003.
>
> It seems the cause of this is that the number of subdirectories under
> /mnt/koji/work/tasks is approaching the limit (~32k). So the file system
> refused to create new directory under /mnt/koji/work/tasks and then we
> failed to launch any task on koji. I have created a new directory
> /mnt/koji/work/tasks.old and move the oldest ~2.4k directories there to
> work around this issue. The side effect is that logs of these old tasks
> are no longer available on the koji's web interface (e.g.
> http://ia64.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=102) but seems
> it's same on x86 (e.g.
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=365824). Please let
> me know if there are better solutions for this.
>
> Thanks,
> Yi
>
Yi,
Yes, I think this is the right thing to do. On the primary arch's koji
server they have a script that tries to clean up old tasks. I had not
been concerned about this since we still have plenty of disk space. I
did not think about the problem of having too many directories.
- Doug
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