Re: Full disk and 2.3.x kernels.
Trever Adams (trever_Adams@bigfoot.com)
Sat, 20 Nov 1999 12:14:58 -0700
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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