Premature "No Space left on device" on XFS

[Dave Chinner]

On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 04:40:13PM +0800, Gim Leong Chin wrote:
> Hi Dave,
> 
> 
> > 
> > As it is, your problem is most likely fragmented free space
> > (an
> > aging problem). Inodes are allocated in chunks of 64, so
> > require an
> > -aligned- contiguous 16k extent for the default 256 byte
> > inode size.
> > If you have no aligned contiguous 16k extents free then
> > inode
> > allocation will fail.
> > 
> 
> I understand from the mkfs.xfs man page "The  XFS  inode  contains a fixed-size part and a variable-size part."
> 
> 1) Do you mean inodes are allocated in units of 64 at one go?

http://xfs.org/docs/xfsdocs-xml-dev/XFS_Filesystem_Structure//tmp/en-US/html/AG_Inode_Management.html
http://xfs.org/docs/xfsdocs-xml-dev/XFS_Filesystem_Structure//tmp/en-US/html/Inode_Btrees.html

> 2) What is the size of the fixed-size part?
> 3) Are the fixed-size parts of inodes also allocated in units of 64 at one go?
> 4) Where are the fixed-size parts located?  On special extents just like the variable-size part?
> 5) What about the locality of the variable and fixed size parts of the inodes?  Can they be any distance apart?

http://xfs.org/docs/xfsdocs-xml-dev/XFS_Filesystem_Structure//tmp/en-US/html/On-disk_Inode.html

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com