From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: EXT4 ENOSPC Bug
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:56:23 -0600
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Alex Buell wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:08:21 -0600, I waved a wand and this message
> magically appears in front of Eric Sandeen:
> 
>> FWIW my problem seems to be different than others have encountered;
>> mine persists past reboot, while other reporters have said that a
>> reboot (remount) makes the problem go away.
>>
>> I seem to be encountering some silliness in find_group_flex when 2 out
>> of 3 groups are full (I "only" have 55k inodes left, all in the last
>> group).
> 
> I've discovered a forced fsck clears this. HTH.

Do you have the output of the fsck run?

-Eric