On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 04:58:16AM +0000, David Holland wrote: > On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 10:07:13PM -0500, der Mouse wrote: > > Of course, still better would be to fix vnd, though I'm not sure what > > the right fix would be. > > What's the problem? My vague understanding was that you could get into > deadlocks allocating blocks, but maybe I'm confusing it with something > else.
What exactly do you tell the application when you cannot allocate space on the underlying filsystem? It thinks it has a disk, not a filesystem file! The opportunities for application havoc are exceeded only by something like a Drobo. Thor