From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Chris Dunlop <chris@onthe.net.au>, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: XFS fallocate implementation incorrectly reports ENOSPC
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 10:05:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <335ae292-cb09-6e6e-9673-68cfae666fc0@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210826020637.GA2402680@onthe.net.au>
On 8/25/21 9:06 PM, Chris Dunlop wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As reported by Charles Hathaway here (with no resolution):
>
> XFS fallocate implementation incorrectly reports ENOSPC
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1791323
>
> Given this sequence:
>
> fallocate -l 1GB image.img
> mkfs.xfs -f image.img
> mkdir mnt
> mount -o loop ./image.img mnt
> fallocate -o 0 -l 700mb mnt/image.img
> fallocate -o 0 -l 700mb mnt/image.img
>
> Why does the second fallocate fail with ENOSPC, and is that considered an XFS bug?
Interesting. Off the top of my head, I assume that xfs is not looking at
current file space usage when deciding how much is needed to satisfy the
fallocate request. While filesystems can return ENOSPC at any time for
any reason, this does seem a bit suboptimal.
> Ext4 is happy to do the second fallocate without error.
>
> Tested on linux-5.10.60
>
> Background: I'm chasing a mysterious ENOSPC error on an XFS filesystem with way more space than the app should be asking for. There are no quotas on the fs. Unfortunately it's a third party app and I can't tell what sequence is producing the error, but this fallocate issue is a possibility.
Presumably you've tried stracing it and looking for ENOSPC returns from
syscalls?
-Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-26 15:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-26 2:06 XFS fallocate implementation incorrectly reports ENOSPC Chris Dunlop
2021-08-26 15:05 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2021-08-26 20:56 ` Chris Dunlop
2021-08-27 2:55 ` Chris Dunlop
2021-08-27 5:49 ` Dave Chinner
2021-08-27 6:53 ` Chris Dunlop
2021-08-27 22:03 ` Dave Chinner
2021-08-28 0:21 ` Mysterious ENOSPC [was: XFS fallocate implementation incorrectly reports ENOSPC] Chris Dunlop
2021-08-28 3:58 ` Chris Dunlop
2021-08-29 22:04 ` Dave Chinner
2021-08-30 4:21 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-08-30 7:40 ` Chris Dunlop
2021-08-30 7:37 ` Mysterious ENOSPC Chris Dunlop
2021-09-02 1:42 ` Dave Chinner
2021-09-17 6:07 ` Chris Dunlop
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