No space left on device

[Dave Chinner]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 04:07:23PM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> I started with a few hundred gig on my FS
> (on top of LVM which in turn is on top a bunch
> of MD devices).
> 
> Slowly increasing the size with pvmove/{vg,lv}extend
> etc. Yesterday, I added more disks yet again and
> now have about 8Tb on one FS... ~1Tb free. But still
> get the 'No space left on device'.
> 
> 
> I've been looking through the 'Net and it
> must be because I'm out of inodes (and that
> the data is on the first 1Tb etc)...
> 
> I'm running on AMD 64bit (native kernel, but
> Debian Lenny 32bit userland - 2.6.2[4-6] kernel).
....
> The worst thing is that every time I grow
> the FS, I have to reboot into a 32bit kernel:
> 
> xfs_growfs: XFS_IOC_FSGROWFSDATA xfsctl failed: Invalid argument

The compat ioctl handlers for 32bit userspace to 64 bit kernel we
not included until a later kernel. Either upgrade to a 64 bit
userspace or to a much more recent kernel, and the problem will go
away.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com