[Ocfs2-users] No space left on device

[Tao Ma]

Hi,
Alexander Barton wrote:
> Hi Tao!
>
> Am 08.09.2010 um 10:53 schrieb Tao Ma:
>
>   
>> Hi all
>>
>> On 09/08/2010 04:11 PM, Alexander Barton wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Hi Sunil!
>>>
>>> Are there special steps one has to follow to recover such a filesystem that has been used with a buggy kernel?
>>>
>>> We had this problem with a Debian 2.6.27 kernel and updated to a recent „mainline“ kernel 2.6.33.x – but are still seeing the same problem: „no space left“ is reported when trying to write files to the filesystem (a few megabytes are often „too much“) although df(1) shows a lot (gigabytes) of free space.
>>>
>>>  - Kernel 2.6.33-2-amd64 (2.6.33-1~experimental.4)
>>>  - OCFS2 Tools 1.4.3-1
>>>       
>> Discontig block group is added in the last development cycle which mean 2.6.35 IIRC.
>>
>> As for the tools part, I have added the patches to the mail list and there is still one patch waiting for review.
>>
>>     
>>> Any hints?
>>> Do you need more information?
>>>       
>> yes, we have to make sure you meet with discontig block group problem if we have your stat_sysdir output.
>>     
>
> It is about 275 KBytes, so I uploaded it here:
> <http://gist.github.com/569970>
>   
Does it happen now? Your volume seems to have the similar problem, a 
large number of groups has small
contiguous spaces that can't be used to allocate an inode.
So do please wait for the patch for the ocfs2-tools to be included and 
the mainline kernel of 2.6.35.

Regards,
Tao