On 9/14/10, Dave Howorth
I have an XFS filesystem that appears to be giving me false "No space left on device" errors. It's the first time I've used XFS so I'm not familiar with its foibles. Can anybody point me to a good explanation/solution?
The filesystem is in a 2 TB LVM and according to df there's 662 GB space free:
/dev/mapper/vg--storage-lv--data 2.0T 1.4T 662G 68% /nfs/scop4/data
There are a quite a few directories in the filesystem. Some of the directories contain many millions of files and some directories consist entirely of symlinks, if any of that's relevant.
The filesystem is on a newish machine running openSUSE 11.2 and the data is being mirrored from an old machine that uses a reiser filesystem and which stores the data without problem.
The errors look like:
cp: cannot create symbolic link `/nfs/scop4/data/trembl/xml/releases/2006-01-10/Q6RXU6.xml': No space left on device
and later
cp: cannot create directory `/nfs/scop4/data/trembl/xml/releases/2006-01-24': No space left on device
Any pointers would be helpful.
Thanks, Dave
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