Re: Disk full and writting to pre-allocated area on ReiserFS

[Hans Reiser]

Peter Zaitsev wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm running SuSE 9.1  Kernel 2.6.5-7.108-default 
> But I would guess it applies to large variety of platforms as we have
> customers reporting the same problem.
>
> I'm using reiserfs:
> /dev/md0 on /data type reiserfs (rw,noatime,notail,data=writeback)
>
> The problem is in case of disk full condition,  "Disk full" error is
> being reported even if write happens to Pre-Allocated area, in my case
> to Innodb recovery log files.
>
> This is very unfortunate as in such case Innodb has no way but to
> terminate database server.  These logs are specially pre-allocated so 
> one would not run in such condition.
>
> Question: Is there any way to avoid this problem with Reiserfs ? 
>
>
>  
vs or chris or jeff, can you comment?
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