Bug#575891: strace logs

2010-04-06 Thread Chris Mason
We've gone through the strace logs and thanks to some pointers to the dpkg code, I think I can explain this. Dpkg does something like this: while( filename = readdir(/var/dpkg/info)) { err = rename(/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/filename, /var/lib/dpkg/info); if (err) {

Bug#495562: Btrfs stability

2008-08-20 Thread Chris Mason
Btrfs is not suitably stable for production use, and the disk format will continue to change over the next few releases. The plan is to finalize the disk format by the end of the year. Btrfs packages have been built against redhat, suse, gentoo and other distros with warnings about the unstable

Bug#297645: clamsmtp: does not free file descriptors when outbound connections cannot be established

2005-03-01 Thread Chris Mason
Package: clamsmtp Version: 1.2-3 Severity: important Tags: patch There is a file descriptor leak with clamsmtp that means it will run out of file descriptors after a period of time. By default Linux systems have a maximum of 1024 FD's per process and clamsmtp does not free file descriptors when