My question is this. Is there anything that can be done on the
server-side to influence the free inodes/files that XFS reports?
(Specifically, other than rebuilding the XFS partition smaller)
Also a related question, has anyone ever run into this sort problem in
the past and (if so) what did you do to work around it?
The app's vendor has been notified and has logged this as a bug but they
consider this to be a "corner-case" and don't seem to care much about
updating their code, at least very quickly. I've pointed out to them
the many other apps that run on there without problems but was unable to
successfully goad them into patching the problem.