[p4] How well does perforce handle the disk being full?

[Sheizaf, Yariv]

Hi,

Perforce database is the strongest and stabilized in the world. 
It has only ONE limitation: If the disk is full, its response is
unexpected and not coherent.

The reason is trivial: If, for example, there are 10KB free before
starting the submit action, the first file is 4KB and the required disk
space for its reporting in the metadata DB is 3kb, an action will be
started and will maybe completed. Now, for the second file you need 6kb
and there are only 3kb free - the task will be not completed properly.

I strongly recommend to monitor the disk space on the Perforce server,
and to set a program that stop Perforce service if there is less than
100MB (or alike) free disk space.


Regards,

Yariv Sheizaf