From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id p98DICJ8050216 for ; Sat, 8 Oct 2011 08:18:12 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 9321F1B92B8 for ; Sat, 8 Oct 2011 06:18:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (173-166-109-252-newengland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.166.109.252]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id y9vAh9vC7wGz39Cr for ; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 06:18:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 09:18:09 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: Premature "No Space left on device" on XFS Message-ID: <20111008131809.GB25855@infradead.org> References: <4E8E079B.4040103@birkenwald.de> <20111007013711.GW3159@dastard> <4E8F0385.7060906@birkenwald.de> <20111007231410.GG3159@dastard> <4E90422E.3060805@birkenwald.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E90422E.3060805@birkenwald.de> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Bernhard Schmidt Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 02:29:34PM +0200, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: > Can I avoid XFS giving ENOSPC due to inode shortage even in worst > case situations? I would be fine preallocating 1 GB for inode > storage if that would fix the problem. ext4 with bytes-per-inode = > blocksize does this fine. It's a bit of a hack, but you can do that fairly easily by: - mounting the filesystem with the ikeep option - creating the numbers of inodes you need (use a worst case allocation) before starting the workload _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs