Alexander Barton wrote:
> 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.
>   
yeah, that is the reason I said "your volumes seems to..." in my 
previous e-mail. ;)
If you have deleted some small files, it looks it is.

btw, I may commit the ocfs2-tools patches recently, and you can try it 
with 2.6.35.

Regards,
Tao
>   
>> 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
>
>
>   


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