Bug#280213: exim4: Thinks it's always out of spool space

[John Goerzen]

On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 09:25:56AM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> I cannot reproduce this here (2.6.7, ix86, spool on Reiser for
> testing) and this just looks extremely strange, your df (and stat) and

Yes, I'm thinking exactly the same thing.  I wonder if it has something
to do with casts, but who knows...

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Done.

> kill the exim running as root with <Ctrl>-C and send this info:
> 1) The output of 
>    grep -2 -E 'stat.*/var/spool/exim4' /tmp/straceout

That produced no results.  It seems that the strace didn't follow the
fork.  Hmm....

When I ran it with -ff, it produced a zero-byte file for the client.
I'm not sure what is going on there.  I'm going to investigate some more
and get back to you.

> 2) The corresponding "spool directory /var/spool/exim4 space..."-line
> in /tmp/exim.debug

I'll get back to you on that once I figure out what stat is up to.

> 3) The output of "stat -f /var/spool/exim4".
>         thanks, cu andreas

$ stat -f /var/spool/exim4
  File: "/var/spool/exim4"
    ID: 0        Namelen: 255     Type: reiserfs
Blocks: Total: 293066     Free: 57315      Available: 57315      Size:
4096
Inodes: Total: 0          Free: 0