BUG #8238: duplicate of bug #6372 on panffs

james.e.hughes@boeing.com writes:

Upon creating a database on a panfs (Panasas proprietary fs) directory I
get:
createdb: database creation failed: ERROR: could not fsync file
"base/16387": Invalid argument
This is a duplicate of bug #6372 and is fixed by applying the patch for
copydir.c listed in the thread. So we confirm this problem also exists on
another fs in addition to CIFS.

Thanks for the report. Looking back at the previous thread, it seems we
chose not to change the code (to ignore EINVAL for fsync-on-a-directory)
on the grounds that CIFS couldn't be considered a supported filesystem
anyway. Do you find that panfs works all right for Postgres other than
this issue?

regards, tom lane

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