[Ocfs2-users] No space left on device

[Alexander Barton]

Hi Tao!

Am 08.09.2010 um 16:22 schrieb 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?

No. We deleted „lots“ of small cache files and are currently able to write to the filesystem.

> 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.

Ok, thanks a lot for your answer!

Regards
Alex