Hi,
I recently started using XFS when I set up a new server and I'm having a
problem when copying data on to it from an old server. cp reports errors
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
The filesystem is in a 2 TB LVM on an md RAID 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 (Linux scop4
2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2010-03-16 21:25:39 +0100 x86_64
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux) and the data is being mirrored from an older
machine that uses a reiser filesystem and which stores the data without
problem.
Some folks on the suse mailing list said it was probably an inode
problem and suggested I run df -i:
# df -i /nfs/scop4/data
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg--storage-lv--data
429496704 -18446744073280007488
18446744073709504192 - /nfs/scop4/data
I don't understand that output, especially the negative number! I then
read about the inode64 mount option in the XFS FAQ and I believe I've
now enabled that and remounted the filesystem. mtab shows
/dev/mapper/vg--storage-lv--data /nfs/scop4/data xfs rw,noatime,inode64 0 0
But I'm still seeing the same errors as before. Is there something else
I need to do to enable inode64, or am I looking in the wrong direction?
Seems like you have a cross between
http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ#Q:_What_is_the_inode64_mount_option_for.3F
and
http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ#Q:_Why_do_I_receive_No_space_left_on_device_after_xfs_growfs.3F
Perhaps not using inode64 from the beginning looks similar to a xfs_growfs?
Regards,
@ndy
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