Re: Another BackupPC Fuse filesystem

Pieter Wuille <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.backuppc.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 09:27:48AM -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> Pieter Wuille wrote at about 15:23:16 +0200 on Tuesday, June 9, 2009:
<snip>
>  > Ok that means the perl script exited before it should have. If you start it
>  > using "perl backuppcfs.pl -f <mountpoint>", it will keep running in the
>  > foreground and print out any errors that occur.
>  > 
>  > One reason why it may have exited is Out of Memory - in case someone/something
>  > would try to read through the whole directory tree in a short time, the tree
>  > cache will probably start using arbitrary much memory. Next on my todo list:
>  > limit the amount of the tree nodes held in memory.
>  > 
>  > If it's caused by something else, i'd like to see the error message.
>  > 
> 
> Here is the error message:
> perl backuppcfs.pl -f mymountpoint
> Undefined subroutine &main::bpc_statfs called at
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/Fuse.pm line
> 121.

The latest version has that bug fixed, as well as a limit on the number of
cached directory nodes - memory usage should be a lot more reasonable now
when searching through many directories.

URL is still https://svn.ulyssis.org/repos/sipa/backuppc-fuse/backuppcfs.pl


-- 
Pieter

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