maxpct option for small xfs filesystems

Eric Sandeen sandeen at sandeen.net
Wed Jan 28 12:05:27 CST 2015


On 1/28/15 4:41 AM, Alexander Tsvetkov wrote:
> What is expected behaviour in this case when it's required for fs to allocate new inodes starting to exceed defined maxpct
> percentage? Which error is expected to be returned to user, enospc or probably just some warning?

Sorry, I didn't answer this.  ENOSPC is expected.

There's not a lot of value in enforcing this strictly to the last inode,
because a % is fairly coarse anyway, but we should not blow right past
it as we do today.

-Eric



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