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

[Sunil Mushran]

OCFS2 is only for Linux so unsure where Windows comes in.
If the qs is regarding OCFS for Windows, then that is a totally
different product. Ping Oracle Support for issues on OCFS/Win.

estano at sopragroup.it wrote:
> 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
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> thanks
>
> eupremio
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> 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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