BTRFS: more space available than free

From: Klaus Ethgen
Date: Wed Sep 30 2015 - 07:36:07 EST


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Hello,

currently, I suffer of a weird problem with a btrfs filesystem:
~> uname -r
4.0.9
~> stat -f /
File: "/"
ID: a446833a80ceeb6a Namelen: 255 Type: btrfs
Block size: 4096 Fundamental block size: 4096
Blocks: Total: 128472 Free: 41964 Available: 42981
Inodes: Total: 0 Free: 0

As you can see, f_bavail is slightly bigger than f_bfree. As I
understand the values, f_bavail should be never bigger than f_bfree.

Currently that breaks check_disk from nagios.

How can that happening? I found a thread about some try to make f_bavail
more accurate in 2014 but nothing about f_bfree.

What I didn't try until now, is, if that problem also happened with the
most recent kernel version but this will be my next step.

Please forgive that I don't read lkml regularly. Please keep me in Cc
for this reason.

Regards
Klaus
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