[Ocfs2-users] No Space left on the device.

[Brad Plant]

Hi Tao,

On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:03:50 +0800
Tao Ma <tao.ma at oracle.com> wrote:

> > Assuming we *can* still write to the FS (i.e. as more of a preventative action), would the following do the same?
> > 
> > cp -a a b
> > mv b a
> > 
> > Can the above work as a *hack* online defrag? Will this reduce the amount of free space fragmentation and therefore stop (or reduce the chance of) this problem from occurring? Would we need to do it to the entire file system or just a few larger files?
> yeah, that should work.
> you can use debugfs.ocfs2 to see whether a file is more fragmented or not.

Ok, so it will defrag files, but will it help with the inability to write to the file system issue reported in http://oss.oracle.com/bugzilla/show_bugcgi?id=1189 ?

Cheers,

Brad
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