Re: BUG #8238: duplicate of bug #6372 on panffs

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: james(dot)e(dot)hughes(at)boeing(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #8238: duplicate of bug #6372 on panffs
Date: 2013-06-22 22:26:46
Message-ID: 27236.1371940006@sss.pgh.pa.us
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james(dot)e(dot)hughes(at)boeing(dot)com writes:
> Upon creating a database on a panfs (Panasas proprietary fs) directory I
> get:
> createdb: database creation failed: ERROR: could not fsync file
> "base/16387": Invalid argument
> This is a duplicate of bug #6372 and is fixed by applying the patch for
> copydir.c listed in the thread. So we confirm this problem also exists on
> another fs in addition to CIFS.

Thanks for the report. Looking back at the previous thread, it seems we
chose not to change the code (to ignore EINVAL for fsync-on-a-directory)
on the grounds that CIFS couldn't be considered a supported filesystem
anyway. Do you find that panfs works all right for Postgres other than
this issue?

regards, tom lane

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