Re: 'out of space' vs 'out of inodes'?

Kevin Mark wrote:
> A general Linux question: why does Linux report 'out of space' error
> when it runs out of inodes? Can't it distinguish between the 2
> conditions to give the correct message or is there some other issue?
> Just curious as I just go this after making 1,000,000 small test files
> and got this (du -m -i).

Check out /usr/include/asm-generic/errno-base.h and see that the error you are mostly likely getting is ENOSPC which gets translated to the libc sys_errlist as "No space left on device". There is just the one error code there, no space, and I believe is simply used generically for both errors. There is no E-out-of-inodes error code. Therefore no way for userland programs to report anything different.

Bob

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