[Dirvish] filesystem full - but thats wrong

[Richard]

Frank Lüken wrote:
> Hi i get everyday this message after my backupserver starts the daily backup:
> dirvish ubuntu:default fatal error: write error, filesystem probably full
> dirvish ubuntu:default fatal error: filesystem full
> dirvish ubuntu:default fatal error (12) -- filesystem full
>
> If i restart the Backupserver one day the backup work, but on the second
> day it crashes again! The filesystem hat enough free space i think. It is
> an ubuntu 8.04 server.
>
> Some ideas?
>   
First thing, inodes.  What file system are you using?  EXT2/3 or 
ReiserFS?  If EXT2/3, it could be an inode issue.

I did have an issue one time where a runaway log file would fill up /var 
and even deleting the huge file would not free up the disk space.  I 
can't remember what the samba developers said the issue was, but it was 
a file system utility software error.  Something somewhere wasn't 
handling file locks -- or it was keeping them open.

What does 'df' say before the 2nd night's backup, what does it say AFTER 
the 2nd night's backup.   What happens to the results of 'df' when you 
run a dirvish-expire?  Does dirvish create temp files anywhere and if so 
is /tmp on the same partition as the filesystem that is full?

Have you ruled out a write permissions error?  Does the disk in question 
have a hardware problem or a filesystem error that is causing the volume 
to go into 'read only' mode?

-- 
Richard