Re: ARC-1260: No space left on device, when there is (or should be) free space left

[Magnus Naeslund <mag@kite.se>]

Theodore Tso wrote:
> 
> How are you using the filesystem?  This wouldn't happen to be one of
> the backup schemes that use hard links and huge numbers of
> directories, would it?  And how did you create the filesystem
> originally?  Normally mke2fs is quite generous with the number of
> inodes it creates to avoid this problem.  Did you use -T largefile or
> -T largefile4 by any chance?  Or did you manually specify a
> non-standard inode_ratio size?
> 

It's a filesystem containing images varying from 300kb to 2mb of size.
It currently contains 1426394 files in 4125 directories.

Magnus

I believe this has the appropriate information:
tune2fs 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
Filesystem volume name:   <none>
Last mounted on:          <not available>
Filesystem magic number:  0xEF53
Filesystem revision #:    1 (dynamic)
Filesystem features:      has_journal resize_inode dir_index filetype needs_recovery sparse_super large_file
Filesystem flags:         signed directory hash
Default mount options:    (none)
Filesystem state:         clean
Errors behavior:          Continue
Filesystem OS type:       Linux
Inode count:              1430528
Block count:              1464843264
Reserved block count:     0
Free blocks:              998810993
Free inodes:              0
First block:              0
Block size:               4096
Fragment size:            4096
Reserved GDT blocks:      674
Blocks per group:         32768
Fragments per group:      32768
Inodes per group:         32
Inode blocks per group:   1
Filesystem created:       Sun Apr  1 12:46:39 2007
Last mount time:          Mon Jun 18 14:23:26 2007
Last write time:          Mon Jun 18 14:23:26 2007
Mount count:              8
Maximum mount count:      20
Last checked:             Sun Apr  1 12:46:39 2007
Check interval:           15552000 (6 months)
Next check after:         Fri Sep 28 12:46:39 2007
Reserved blocks uid:      0 (user root)
Reserved blocks gid:      0 (group root)
First inode:              11
Inode size:               128
Journal inode:            8
Default directory hash:   tea
Directory Hash Seed:      f252b473-6db0-499b-8de1-c788e84563dc
Journal backup:           inode blocks