From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754571AbZBQW45 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:56:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752949AbZBQW4r (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:56:47 -0500 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:45854 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752851AbZBQW4q (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:56:46 -0500 Message-ID: <499B4097.90808@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:56:23 -0600 From: Eric Sandeen User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Buell CC: Theodore Tso , Andres Freund , adilger@sun.com, LKML , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Bastien-Filiatrault , "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Subject: Re: EXT4 ENOSPC Bug References: <20090216162028.3032666a@lithium.local.net> <200811291418.24672.andres@anarazel.de> <200812100108.04163.andres@anarazel.de> <49994FEF.2020908@anarazel.de> <20090216150156.GD22619@mini-me.lan> <499985C7.8010302@anarazel.de> <20090216190001.GB11788@mini-me.lan> <499AFE32.7070003@redhat.com> <499B1935.10906@redhat.com> <20090217223017.3a86a045@lithium.local.net> In-Reply-To: <20090217223017.3a86a045@lithium.local.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alex Buell wrote: > On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:08:21 -0600, I waved a wand and this message > magically appears in front of Eric Sandeen: > >> FWIW my problem seems to be different than others have encountered; >> mine persists past reboot, while other reporters have said that a >> reboot (remount) makes the problem go away. >> >> I seem to be encountering some silliness in find_group_flex when 2 out >> of 3 groups are full (I "only" have 55k inodes left, all in the last >> group). > > I've discovered a forced fsck clears this. HTH. Do you have the output of the fsck run? -Eric