On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 05:27:14PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > On 6/22/11 4:32 PM, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: > > I have a 5.1TB XFS file system that is 93% full (399G free according to "df"). > > > > I am trying to run "xfs_repair" on it. > > > > The output is appended. > > > > Question: What am I supposed to do about this? "xfs_repair -V" says > > "xfs_repair version 3.1.5". (I downloaded and built the latest > > version hoping it would fix the issue, but no luck.) Should I just > > start deleting files at random? > > You could start by removing a few files you know you don't need, rather than > at random. :) > > TBH I've not seen this one before, and the error message is not all that > helpful. It'd be nice to know how many blocks it was trying to reserve > when it ran out of space; I guess you'd need to use gdb, or instrument > all the calls to res_failed() in phase6.c to know for sure... Also, the number of inodes and directories in your filesystem might tell us whether we should expect an ENOSPC, as well. I suspect that there's an accounting error, because 400GB of transaction reservations is an awful lot of directory rebuilds.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs