linux-kernel - Re: EXT4 ENOSPC Bug

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Message-ID: <20081203153441.GD9481@skywalker>
Date:	Wed, 3 Dec 2008 21:04:41 +0530
From:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Jonathan Bastien-Filiatrault <joe@....org>
Cc:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Andres Freund <andres@...razel.de>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: EXT4 ENOSPC Bug

On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 07:37:20PM -0500, Jonathan Bastien-Filiatrault wrote:
> Theodore Tso wrote:
> 
> > Hmm...  really?  Was the error message ENOSPC, or something else?
> >
> I can confirm I get a ENOSPC on open/creat. Here is the relevant output
> from strace touch test:
> 
> open("test", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_NOCTTY|O_NONBLOCK, 0666) = -1 ENOSPC (No
> space left on device)
> 

Can you make sure you have the below patch in the kernel.

c001077f4003fa75793bb62979baa6241dd8eb19

commit c001077f4003fa75793bb62979baa6241dd8eb19
Author: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Date:   Tue Aug 19 22:19:50 2008 -0400

ext4: Fix bug where we return ENOSPC even though we have plenty of inodes

-aneesh
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