[CentOS] NFS not recognizing available file space

Tue Feb 4 18:14:36 UTC 2014
SilverTip257 <silvertip257 at gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Pat Haley <phaley at mit.edu> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I have a server running under CentOS 5.8 and I appear to be in a
> situation in which the NFS file server is not recognizing the available
> space on a particular disk (actually a hardware RAID-6 of 13 2Tb disks).
> If I try to write to the disk I get the following error message
>
> [root at nas-0-1 mseas-data-0-1]# touch dum
> touch: cannot touch `dum': No space left on device
>
> However, if I check the available space, there seems to
> be plenty
>
> [root at nas-0-1 mseas-data-0-1]# df -h .
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sdb1              21T   20T  784G  97% /mseas-data-0-1
>

Maybe you're hitting the allocation of reserved blocks for root?
With your disk usage of 97% I'd think that could be the case.

You didn't say what file system you're using for that 21TB array, so we
(this list) won't be of too much help without knowing that.

tune2fs [0] is your friend
- use it to determine if there are reserved blocks
- use it to adjust the settings

[0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ext4#Remove_reserved_blocks


>
> [root at nas-0-1 mseas-data-0-1]# df -i .
> Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
> /dev/sdb1            3290047552 4391552 3285656000    1% /mseas-data-0-1
>
> I don't know if the following is relevant but the disk in question
> is served as one of 3 bricks in a gluster namespace.
>
> Based on the test with touch, which is happening directly
> at the NFS level, this seems to be an NFS rather than gluster
> issue. I couldn't find any file in /var/log which had a
> time that corresponded to the failed touch test and I didn't
> see anything in dmesg.  We have tried rebooting this system.
> What else should we look at and/or try to resolve or debug
> this issue?
>

If you have a non-root shell account on that box, can you write to that
array from the NFS host?
( Take NFS out of the equation. )


>
> Thanks.
>
> Pat
>
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