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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Bernhard Schmidt <berni@birkenwald.de>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Premature "No Space left on device" on XFS
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 09:18:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111008131809.GB25855@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E90422E.3060805@birkenwald.de>

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

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-08 13:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-06 19:55 Premature "No Space left on device" on XFS Bernhard Schmidt
2011-10-07  0:22 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-10-07  0:47   ` Bernhard Schmidt
2011-10-07  1:37 ` Dave Chinner
2011-10-07  8:40   ` Gim Leong Chin
2011-10-07 23:20     ` Dave Chinner
2011-10-07 11:40   ` Michael Monnerie
2011-10-07 23:17     ` Dave Chinner
2011-10-07 13:49   ` Bernhard Schmidt
2011-10-07 23:14     ` Dave Chinner
2011-10-08 12:29       ` Bernhard Schmidt
2011-10-08 13:18         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-10-08 22:34           ` Dave Chinner
2011-10-09 14:46             ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-08 22:30         ` Dave Chinner
2011-10-07 13:58   ` Bryan J Smith
2011-10-07 23:31     ` Dave Chinner
2011-10-08  6:30       ` Bryan J Smith
2011-10-08 13:16         ` Christoph Hellwig

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