Re: kernel errors when XFS filesystem fills up

[Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>]

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 02:33:52PM +1000, Scott Fagg wrote:
> 
> /proc/sys/fs/xfs/error_level is set to 3 on the box in question.
> 
> What is the error message i'm getting actually telling me ? 
> 
> - corrupt filesystem structure ? 
> - corrupt inode ?
> - it just ran out of space ? ( i didn't think this was the case as i still get problems after freeing up some free space)
> 
> I'm guessing that what happens is that at the full-volume case is hit, an allocation goes wrong and the structures on disc don't get written out properly, so from that point on the fs is messed up.
> 
> What puzzles me is that xfs_repair and xfs_check NEVER find any problems even while i'm getting these errors out of dmesg.