ext2_new_blocks should reset the reservation window size to 0 when squeezing the last blocks out of an almost full filesystem, so the retry doesn't skip any groups with less than half that free, reporting ENOSPC too soon. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext2/balloc.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- 2.6.19-rc6-mm2/fs/ext2/balloc.c 2006-11-24 08:18:02.000000000 +0000 +++ linux/fs/ext2/balloc.c 2006-11-27 19:28:41.000000000 +0000 @@ -1292,6 +1292,7 @@ retry_alloc: */ if (my_rsv) { my_rsv = NULL; + windowsz = 0; group_no = goal_group; goto retry_alloc; } - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html