On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 05:24:34PM -0500, Lee Trager wrote: > Because the last bug I dealt with had so much to do with the disk being > full I decided to test and see what happens when I fill up the disk. > Unfortunatly the disk thinks its full before it actually is. I have a > 7539M btrfs partition and tried to fill it by doing > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/btrfs/fill > > btrfs reports its full after 6408M have been used. dd, ls, and df all > confirm this. This uses only 85% of the disk but I can not put one more > bit onto the partition. The only thing that shows up in my system logs > is "space info full 1." I am using the latest git sources. >
Yup thats by design :). Theres a 85% full short-circuit in there to keep the panic unpleasentness from happening since there isn't proper ENOSPC handling. This will be tossed when the ENOSPC handling is done. Thanks, Josef -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
