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 p5N7giI1169332 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 02:42:45 -0500 Received: from greer.hardwarefreak.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id EEE1D27D9C for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:42:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from greer.hardwarefreak.com (mo-65-41-216-221.sta.embarqhsd.net [65.41.216.221]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id hHSIt0e0ahVLdBvO for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:42:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E02EE71.7010300@hardwarefreak.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 02:42:41 -0500 From: Stan Hoeppner MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: xfs_repair: "fatal error -- ran out of disk space!" References: <4E026C42.2030500@sandeen.net> <20110622232418.GV32466@dastard> In-Reply-To: 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: "Patrick J. LoPresti" Cc: Eric Sandeen , xfs@oss.sgi.com On 6/22/2011 6:41 PM, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: > I guess one question is how xfs_repair should behave in this case. I > mean, what if the file system had been full, but too corrupt for me to > delete anything? Maybe you should rethink your policy on filesystem space management. >>From what you stated the FS in question actually was full. You apparently were unaware of it until a problem (misbehaving nfsd process) brought it to your attention. You should be monitoring your FS usage. Something as simple as logwatch daily summaries can save your bacon here. As a general rule, when an FS begins steadily growing past the 80% mark heading toward 90%, you need to take action, either adding more disk to the underlying LVM device and growing the FS, mounting a new device/FS into a new directory in the tree and manually moving files, or making use of some HSM software. Full filesystems have been a source of problems basically forever. It's best to avoid such situations instead of tickling the dragon. -- Stan _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs