No space left on device during creating the tar file
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Description
Some error like this:
Post job cleanup.
/usr/bin/tar --posix -cf cache.tzst --exclude cache.tzst -P -C /home/runner/work/owner/repo --files-from manifest.txt --use-compress-program zstdmt
zstd: error 70 : Write error : cannot write block : No space left on device
/usr/bin/tar: cache.tzst: Wrote only 4096 of 10240 bytes
/usr/bin/tar: Child returned status 70
/usr/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Warning: Failed to save: "/usr/bin/tar" failed with error: The process '/usr/bin/tar' failed with exit code 2
Currently the CI job fails then.
I'm not sure about the best solution.
- #1281 / #1282 suggests to add
--remove-files. But I'm not sure whether that's the best idea. - Use some temp filesystem to store the tar file which has enough space.
- Just ignore the error, make it a warning instead, and proceed. Or make this configurable. I'm totally fine if this is just a warning.
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Research direction
Start by tracing the cache archive creation that invokes the shown /usr/bin/tar and zstd command, then reproduce the failure with a full filesystem. Compare the proposed --remove-files, temporary-filesystem, and warning-only approaches; done requires an agreed policy, implementation, and coverage for the no-space condition.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- ci-cd
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100