From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 12 22:20:01 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BD6E1065675 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:20:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F2028FC13 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:20:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n0CMK1Rg008676 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:20:01 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n0CMK1FQ008675; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:20:01 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Resent-Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:20:01 GMT Resent-Message-Id: <200901122220.n0CMK1FQ008675@freefall.freebsd.org> Resent-From: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org (GNATS Filer) Resent-To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Resent-Reply-To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, John Levine Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 089471065672 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:13:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nobody@FreeBSD.org) Received: from www.freebsd.org (www.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::21]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC8E28FC19 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:13:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nobody@FreeBSD.org) Received: from www.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n0CMDiA8036614 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:13:44 GMT (envelope-from nobody@www.freebsd.org) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by www.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n0CMDibE036611; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:13:44 GMT (envelope-from nobody) Message-Id: <200901122213.n0CMDibE036611@www.freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:13:44 GMT From: John Levine To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org X-Send-Pr-Version: www-3.1 Cc: Subject: misc/130477: restore doesn't recognize out of space on /tmp X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:20:02 -0000 >Number: 130477 >Category: misc >Synopsis: restore doesn't recognize out of space on /tmp >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Jan 12 22:20:00 UTC 2009 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: John Levine >Release: 7.0 >Organization: >Environment: Booted from live FS i386 CD >Description: I booted from CD and was restoring filesystems from dumps on a USB disk onto a fresh system disk. When I tried to restore /var from about a 800MB dump, I got all sorts of strange errors even though the dump was known to be good. After poking around I realized that the problem was there was very little room on /tmp and it filled up. I mounted a reasonable /tmp partition and it worked fine. Restore of the much larger /usr dump failed immediately, so it appears that some writes to the tmp files check for failure, but some don't. >How-To-Repeat: Try to restore a medium sized dump (800MB in my case) on a system with a tiny little /tmp >Fix: A quick look at the source code notes several fwrite() calls in dirs.c that don't check the return value. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: