Hi Derek, Indeed, the cache director alows the leaf-node to report free space to the manager olbd. Without that information, the manager cannot send clients to the leaf node for creating a file. As I mentioned before, we'll get this oddity out of the system. Andy On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Derek Feichtinger wrote: > Hi, Wilko > > thanks for the solution. I set the oss.cache directive and indeed, now it > works. > > > The olbd needs the oss.cache (or equivalent the olb.cache) directive to > > place the file. > > > # 'inplace' means that the file is not put into the cache > > oss.path / inplace > > And indeed, if I remove the oss.cache directive, even while keeping the > "oss.path xyz inplace" statement, I'm again denied. > > I don't understand yet, why this is needed in the file creation via redirector > case, but not in the case where I write directly to the xrootd on the leaf > node. Probably the cache statement somehow triggers the writable/free space > information to the master olbd. > > Cheers, > Derek > > -- > Dr. Derek Feichtinger Tel: +41 22 767 10 07 > LCG/ARDA Group email: [log in to unmask] > CERN http://people.web.psi.ch/feichtinger > CH-1211 Genève 23 > > >