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<p class=MsoNormal>Hi All.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Today I was copying a heap of files to an ocfs2 partition
today for a website when I started experiencing strange problems (where file
creations silently just wouldn’t happen), then eventually ‘no space
left on device’ errors.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>With >100gb free I was quite confused.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>One of the first google results for the issue (<a
href="http://www.mail-archive.com/ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com/msg03082.html">http://www.mail-archive.com/ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com/msg03082.html</a>)
suggested that Nuno was able to get by the problem by deleting 275,000 files.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>As this poor old disk that has many files (perhaps as many
as 5 million) I thought perhaps ive hit some sort of limit.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I too am now on a deleting spree, removing nearly 500,000 I can
go without.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Shortly after I began the delete I’ve re-attempted
copying the files, and now they succeeded.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I’ve been looking around for any sort of limit on
number of files (or number of inodes?) that ocfs2 can support, and have only
found that “OCFS2 1.4 has no intrinsic limit on the total number of files
and directories in the file<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>system….” In the ocfs2 1.4 users guide.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>If there is no such limit can anyone suggest what might have
happened to my file system today? I’d like to avoid it in the future.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Andy..<o:p></o:p></p>
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