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locking decorators cause a variety of bugs during full filesystem situations

Bug #1435800 reported by Duncan Thomas
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #1432387: abandoned lock files. Edit Remove
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Bug Description

If the filesystem holding lock files fills up, a variety of problems can happen, including volumes left in various *ing states

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Duncan Thomas (duncan-thomas) wrote :

Fixing this seems to be different for every locked call, and generally all kinds of not easy.

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John Griffith (john-griffith) wrote :

So the locks are a disaster IMO (yes I'm a broken record), and correct, this isn't an easy mess to fix.

I would like to see some of the lock proponents do something to clean up all the "dead/unused" locks we collect and build up over time and NEVER remove.

Eric Harney (eharney)
Changed in cinder:
status: New → Invalid
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