perhaps running out of inodes could be taken "more seriously"?
perhaps running out of inodes could be taken "more seriously"?
Posted Jun 3, 2017 4:18 UTC (Sat) by k8to (guest, #15413)In reply to: perhaps running out of inodes could be taken "more seriously"? by Richard_J_Neill
Parent article: Improved block-layer error handling
The applications are all told ENOSPC in this situation, so lots of them should be complaining and some of that should be hitting logs.
It's unclear to me that the kernel should also log for each such failure. It might be so noisy as to cause more breakage. I would want the system to do something like log when this situation is near-occurring and when it has occurred in some throttled way, which suggests monitoring logic. Should that be implemented in-kernel or in userland?