From: Reindl Harald Subject: Re: regression: 4.13 cannot follow symlinks on some ext3 fs Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 22:35:08 +0100 Message-ID: <6644604d-b7b3-d836-927d-1bfecc3fa6eb@thelounge.net> References: <20171123203330.GN2482@two.firstfloor.org> <20171123222317.bq2v26zm5i2jspui@thunk.org> <20171123233101.GP2482@two.firstfloor.org> <700971AC-BDE2-4993-BD56-7497AD8A0FC4@dilger.ca> <20171124020435.GQ2482@two.firstfloor.org> <20171124165102.GS2482@two.firstfloor.org> <706E8F37-95C7-4321-AACA-2ED11F82E625@dilger.ca> <20171125223202.GL4094@dastard> <20171126154026.2cyhh3vsvhnszhvs@thunk.org> <20171126211427.GO4094@dastard> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Dave Chinner To: linux-ext4 Return-path: Received: from mail.thelounge.net ([91.118.73.15]:42043 "EHLO mail.thelounge.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751795AbdKZVfK (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Nov 2017 16:35:10 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20171126211427.GO4094@dastard> Content-Language: de-CH Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Am 26.11.2017 um 22:14 schrieb Dave Chinner: > On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 10:40:26AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: >> Are you >> running some benchmarks that are logging into the root, and that's >> triggering the ENOSPC condition? > > No, I'm not doing anything like that on these machines. It's > straight forward "something filled the root fs unexpectedly" type of > error which I don't notice immediately... have you ever considered to just buy larger disks or introduce quota because "Unlike ext3, ext4 is not a filesystem that takes kindly to being abused by an environment that involves machines being crashed, oopsed and forcibly rebooted without warning tens of times a day" caused by a full root fs is anyhting but a reasonable workload and i doubt any filesystem is intended to run under such abused environment it would be even enough to not run that workload as root because that's the reserved diskspace is for