From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Ravi Singh <ravising@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
djwong@kernel.org, dchinner@redhat.com, esandeen@redhat.com,
cem@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: flush delalloc blocks on ENOSPC when creating symlinks
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:20:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ad88TluB4FIP3yJV@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260415071657.23412-1-ravising@redhat.com>
On Wed, Apr 15, 2026 at 07:16:57AM +0000, Ravi Singh wrote:
> When creating symlinks on a nearly-full XFS filesystem,
> xfs_symlink() fails with ENOSPC even though space could be
> reclaimed from speculative preallocations. xfs_create() already
> handles this by flushing outstanding delalloc blocks via
> xfs_flush_inodes() and retrying the transaction allocation, but
> xfs_symlink() returns the error immediately.
>
> Add the same ENOSPC flush+retry logic to xfs_symlink() so that
> symlink creation behaves consistently with file creation.
While we're at it - do we also want it for tempfiles and scrub?
i.e., should we move this logic into xfs_trans_alloc_icreate,
similar to the quota logic?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-15 7:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-15 7:16 [PATCH] xfs: flush delalloc blocks on ENOSPC when creating symlinks Ravi Singh
2026-04-15 7:20 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2026-04-15 13:24 ` Ravi Singh
2026-04-15 14:14 ` Eric Sandeen
2026-04-16 5:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
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