From: Hugo Mills <hugo-lkml@carfax.org.uk>
To: Andrej Podzimek <andrej@podzimek.org>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Errors during defragmentation
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:25:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101129212546.GA3733@carfax.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CF41500.8000804@podzimek.org>
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On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:02:56PM +0100, Andrej Podzimek wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I decided to test the 'defragment' feature on my system (after a huge number of system updates and prelinking):
>
> find /bin /sbin /lib /usr/lib /usr/bin /usr/sbin -type d -exec btrfs filesystem defragment '{}' '+'
>
> I have already defragmented a couple of (very large) directories with no errors at all, so this was expected to work somehow. Surprisingly, this time there were thousands of messages like this:
>
> ioctl failed on <directory name> ret -1 errno 28
errno 28 is ENOSPC
You've run out of disk space. (Or at least, btrfs thinks so).
> Most of the reported directories had zero files/subdirectories. However, *most* of them were *not* empty...
> What does this error message mean? Could someone shed more light on
> this, please? Should I get ready for a bad crash? ;-) (There seems
> to be no data loss so far. No new messages in dmesg, no unexpected
> system behavior.)
Hugo.
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2010-11-29 21:02 Errors during defragmentation Andrej Podzimek
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