[Ocfs2-users] "no space left on device" related to directory limit

[estano at sopragroup.it]

do you know if there is some similar problem also in windows?

i got a wrong "no space left on devices" on archivelog directory, but  
there were plant of free space on the disk


thanks

eupremio


Quoting Sunil Mushran <Sunil.Mushran at oracle.com>:

> No, this probably has to do with the fs unable to allocate inodes
> because inode_alloc for its slot is full and that it is unable to
> extend it because it could not find 4MB contiguous on disk. So, this
> leads to a situation where one can create files on nodes that have
> free space in their inode_alloc but not in others.
>
> We are working on a solution to allow nodes to use free inodes
> in inode_allocs for other slots. Hopefully will be in 1.2.9. Once
> we do that, we could look into allowing users to preallocate space
> in inode_allocs for all slots. This way users will be assured that
> that many inodes will be created (and more if the inode_alloc
> can be extended) and at the same time not worry about wasting space
> if a slot or more remain unused.
>
> If you (or anyone else) does run into this situation, run the script
> stat_sysdir.sh and email me (or file a bugzilla) the output.
>
> http://oss.oracle.com/~smushran/.debug/scripts/stat_sysdir.sh
>
> Sunil
>
> Brekeveld, Feite wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> We have a 3-node cluster setup with ocfs2. Since friday one of the   
>> nodes went down and would not become clustermember after a reboot   
>> because it was unable to write to the ocfs2 filesystem. Message: no  
>>  space left on device.
>>
>> There is plenty of diskspace though.
>>
>> No problem whatsoever to create a file / directory on the   
>> filesystem using one of the other nodes.
>>
>> Today one of  the remaining 2-nodes got the same symptoms. We   
>> started deleting some directories after which we were able to get   
>> the clusternodes up-and-running again.
>>
>> Is there a limit on files / directories for an ocfs2 filesystem ?   
>> I've read something about 32000 subdirectories but with 21450   
>> directories total we weren't even close to that number.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Feite Brekeveld
>>
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