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  1. Lustre
  2. LU-8441

Text file busy error after overwriting file

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Duplicate
    • Minor
    • None
    • Lustre 2.8.0, Lustre 2.5.5
    • lustre-2.5.5-6chaos_2.6.32_573.26.1.1chaos.ch5.4.x86_64.x86_64
    • 3
    • 9223372036854775807

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      Here's our reproducer:

      sh -c 'cd /p/lscratchd/$USER && (f=toss-3321; rm -f $f; cp /bin/ls $f; od -N1 $f; ./$f; echo > $f; rm -f $f)'
      

      This looks similiar to LU-6232. This affects emacs which is impacting our users. This behaviour is a difference in how xemacs vs. vi deal with files that they already have open. With vi, it always writes to a temporary new file which it then moves over top of the file being edited. With xemacs, the original file is moved to <file>~ and a new file written on the first write. After that it overwrites the new file. One can see this by running them, saving a file, checking the inode number with "ls -i <file>", and then repeating the save and check operations. With xemacs the inode number won't change for each save. With vi, it will.

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              yujian Jian Yu
              kamakea1 Teresa Kamakea (Inactive)
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