Re: No space left on device on xfs filesystem with 1.6TB free

[Patrick Schreurs <patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bryon Roche wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:33:10 +0000, Owen Dunn wrote:
>
> > I'm running SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2, on a 32-bit i386 Linux
> > machine with kernel version 2.6.16.60-0.33-smp.  I appear to have
> > version 2.9.4 of xfsprogs.
> >
> > I have a 6TB xfs filesystem which has been grown twice from 2TB, and
> > which appears to have 1.6TB and plenty of inodes free.  However,
> > attempts to create a new file fail with ENOSPC:
> You probably need to mount with inode64 then, to allow xfs to make inodes 
> in the later space in the FS.
We've seen this on 64-bit 2.6.23.x and 2.6.27.x kernels with inode64 
mounted partitions. xfsprogs 2.8.11 (Debian Etch).
Unfortunately we've never been able to track this down.

Patrick Schreurs