On Saturday 29 November 2008 22:15:33 Theodore Tso wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 02:18:19PM +0100, Andres Freund wrote: > > On a testsystem (spare laptop) with ext4 as root filesystem sometimes the > > system starts to return ENOSPC to all write/create syscalls. > > Sometimes the system runs without problems, at other times it starts > > having problems soon after boot. > Hmm.... Is there anything interesting log messages relating to ext4 or > jbd2 showing up in /var/log/messages or in dmesg? Nothing else than telling that barriers are not used (I am using dm-crypt...), but that shouldnt be related. Andres