Thansk for your reply. I'll let you know if I find the cause of the
problems.
Regards,
Kenneth
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 6:06 AM, Luke Kanies wrote:
>
> On Oct 23, 2009, at 12:44 AM, Kenneth Holter wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> >
> > Last night the /var/lib/puppet/clientbucktet directory on one of our
> > production servers suddenly grew about 4 GB, filling up the entire /
> > var partition. Around that time, I see that there was a problem with
> > one of our CIFS mount points (i.e. our CIFS client had problems
> > reaching our CIFS server). We're using puppet to set up the CIFS
> > mount point.
> >
> > Under the clientbucket folder, I have a great number of folders and
> > subfolders like this:
> > ---
> > 0/2/0/f/4/f/3/0/020f4f30aa1670825e81cae2faac4d1d/paths
> > 0/2/0/e/b/d/3/2/020ebd32755675f65bab06b96d7f2265/paths
> > 0/2/0/c/0/1/d/7/020c01d71491b1139b0f23b6ba81d410/paths
> > ---
> >
> > Investigating the contents of a few of the "paths"-files like the
> > ones above, if find that the contents seems to be related to the
> > mount points. I found this by grepping for the name of the mount
> > point withing these filers. I looks like each of the "paths"-file
> > contains the name of exactly one file (seems to be different name
> > within each of the "paths"-files) found under the mount point.
> >
> > What exactly is the clientbucket folder used for? It's not the same
> > as filebucket I presume.
> >
> > Next: How come the "paths"-files above contain names of individual
> > files found within the CIFS mount point? Anyone know why this is so,
> > and why the clientbucket folder so suddenly got filled up with those
> > "paths"-files?
> > And how can I make sure this doesn't happen again (at least not on
> > our production servers)?
>
> I've only ever seen this happen in one other case, and it was related
> to NFS - something caused Puppet to back up a whole filesystem to the
> filebucket:
>
> http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/2019
>
> It'd be awesome if you can track down the problem, because we're
> stymied.
>
> As to why the individual file names are in the 'paths' files - that's
> what they do - hold the paths that have been backed up there.
>
> --
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> and captain of your soul.
> -
> Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.com
>
>
> >
>
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