[comp.os.vms] RMS Bugcheck???

kka059@MIPL3.JPL.NASA.GOV (07/21/87)

Recently, we observed a curious behaviour on our system.  One of our
disks had become so fragmented/full that anybody that attempted to
create a file of any size greater than a few blocks received either 
a "ACP-E-CRE, file create failed" message or a "RMS-E-CRE, ACP file 
creation failed, %SYSTEM-W-HEADERFULL, ..." error.   

  The curious behaviour was that if someone created a small file, then
successively extended the file using SYS$EXTEND, the system would
bugcheck (and crash of course)!

  Although I would think that it would be intuitively obvious, we would 
rather have an error condition returned than to have a problem on one 
disk (out of a farm of more than 25 disks) crash the system.

  Since rebuilding the offending disk via backup/restore, the problem
has not been repeated.  Has anyone else experienced this problem?
Has anyone SPR'd it?????


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