Re: EXT4 ENOSPC Bug

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-12-02T15:27:19Z

On Mon, 01 Dec 2008, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> - do the applications writing to this file have any unusual IO pattern
> (e.g. mmap IO, lots of write+truncate+write on the same file, etc)

Vuze does a massive ammount of sparse writes. It can also be configured to
pre-allocate space (either by creating an empty non-sparse file, or by
telling the kernel that the file is expected to grow to size foo and to
please pre-allocate that in the filesystem. I don't recall how this is
done).

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Henrique Holschuh