linux-kernel - Re: EXT4 ENOSPC Bug

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Date:	Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:31:29 +0100
From:	Andres Freund <andres@...razel.de>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	adilger@....com, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: EXT4 ENOSPC Bug

On Saturday 29 November 2008 22:15:33 Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 02:18:19PM +0100, Andres Freund wrote:
> > On a testsystem (spare laptop) with ext4 as root filesystem sometimes the
> > system starts to return ENOSPC to all write/create syscalls.
> > Sometimes the system runs without problems, at other times it starts
> > having problems soon after boot.
> Hmm.... Is there anything interesting log messages relating to ext4 or
> jbd2 showing up in /var/log/messages or in dmesg?
Nothing else than telling that barriers are not used (I am using dm-crypt...), 
but that shouldnt be related.

Andres

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