Chris Murphy - 30.01.20, 20:31:40 CET: > > > Is that mount option sufficient? Or does it take a filtered > > > balance? > > > What's the most minimal balance needed? I'm hoping -dlimit=1 > > > > > > I can't figure out a way to trigger this though, otherwise I'd be > > > doing more testing. > > > > I haven't checked but I think the suggested workarounds affect > > statfs as a side effect. Also as the reservations are temporary, > > the numbers change again after a sync. > > Yeah I'm being careful to qualify to mortal users that any workarounds > are temporary and uncertain. I'm not even certain what the pattern > is, people with new file systems have hit it. A full balance seems to > fix it, and then soon after the problem happens again. I don't do any > balancing these days, for over a year now, so I wonder if that's why > I'm not seeing it. > > But yeah a small number of people are hitting it, but it also stops > any program that does a free space check (presumably using statfs). > > A more reliable/universal work around in the meantime is still useful; > in particular if it doesn't require changing mount options, or only > requires it temporarily (e.g. not added to /etc/fstab, where it can > be forgotten for the life of that system). I did not balance either. Except maybe for a very short time during holding trainings in order to show to people how it works. I never bought into balancing regularily. Thanks, -- Martin
