Re: [HTCondor-users] Job's DiskUsage resolves symlinks?

[Greg Thain <gthain@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/31/21 3:47 PM, Oliver Freyermuth wrote:
> Dear HTCondor experts,
>
> I'm not sure if this is a bug or feature: We are currently not 
> enforcing DiskUsage_RAW to stay below the Request_Disk, but have 
> started to monitor our user jobs for cases when they mismatch their 
> request,
> preparing for a future enforcement.
> One of our users has found a huge mismatch: He only used a few GB in 
> his execute directory, but he also added some symbolic links to data 
> stored outside of the execute directory
> (on our shared file system), and DiskUsage_RAW rose to a disk usage 
> higher by several factors. 


Oliver:

I'd say it is a bug, but I think you've discovered why it is a bug -- we 
reuse this disk space measuring code in places where we want to follow 
symlinks.

-greg