Re: Unexpected / root partition writes
This is a discussion on Re: Unexpected / root partition writes within the Sun Solaris Administration forums, part of the Solaris Operating System category; --> id@cablelabs.com (Ian D.) wrote in news:566050f1.0307081215.d30e932@posting.google.co m: > > I think I have an answer, at least in my ...
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01-12-2008, 06:08 AM
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 Re: Unexpected / root partition writes id@cablelabs.com (Ian D.) wrote in news:566050f1.0307081215.d30e932@posting.google.co m: > > I think I have an answer, at least in my case. Upon closer inspection > of lsof, I see FIFO's on the root device open for write. Also, > trussing some system processes like ttymon shows that writes do occur > on these FIFO's. So then I did the following: > > mknod /pipe p > cat /dev/zero >p > > Using iostat -D, I saw the writes on the root partition shoot up while > the cat was running, then drop off once I killed it. Some of your > apps may be using named pipes in the root partition. > > Ian > Thanks for the suggestion. I will try and find some time for more debugging on the dev server. van      |
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