linux-kernel - Re: EXT4 ENOSPC Bug

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Message-ID: <20081203172309.GB30610@mit.edu>
Date:	Wed, 3 Dec 2008 12:23:09 -0500
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Jonathan Bastien-Filiatrault <joe@....org>,
	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 Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 09:04:41PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> 
> 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
> 

Mmmm, good point, thanks.  I had been assuming this was caused by some
failure in the delayed allocation code with block accounting, but we
also had a bug fix that was causing a problem with inode allocation.

That doesn't explain a report of an ENOSPC error with metadata only
changes were failing (i.e., touching a file that already exists),
although I don't think we've gotten a lot of information about that
scenario and it feels a little unconfirmed to me still...

So, yes, this patch may solve the issue for you.

							- Ted

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