Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 20 Nov 1999 12:14:58 -0700 | From | Trever Adams <> | Subject | Re: Full disk and 2.3.x kernels. |
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Neil Brown wrote: > > On Friday November 19, trever_Adams@bigfoot.com wrote: > > This problem appeared in early 2.3.x kernels. I believe I first saw it > > in 2.3.11. > > > > Scenerio: Let your disk fill very close to full. Erase a few hundred > > megabytes of data so you can work on other things. Disk stays "full." > > Your apps give you many many errors of such. > > > > in 2.3.x<26 (26 may have been included in this), it never recovers. It > > takes a reboot to get your disk space back. > > > > In 2.3.x>28 (may include 26, I cant remember), two or three fails and > > then bam, you have your space back. > > > > Sync doesn't fix this. It seems to take failed writes. > > I noticed something similar to this when playing with knfsd, > though it seemed to affect 2.2.13 and not 2.3.28. > > Does an umount attempt (which probably will fail with an 'in use' error) fix the problem? > If so, then it is probably a bunch of deleted inodes still being held > open by the dcache. If not, then I guess it's a different problem. > > NeilBrown
No, an unmount doesnt fix it. Mine has simply to do with ext2fs, though I am sure it could be in the VFS layer and show up in both places.
Trever
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