So I upgraded to ext4 with jaunty on my desktop lately. I needed the 2.6.28 kernel to get my tv card (hvr-3000) working, and since ext4dev had been retagged as ext4, it seemed a good time.
All in all, ext4 has been nice so far, but over about three weeks of use, I’ve gotten “no space left on device” errors twice now, despite having over 250GB free. The second instance just happened. First time around, I had to run an reboot/fsck to fix it. The fsck didn’t report fixing anything, so maybe just rebooting did it. I expect that one of those will work again.
Anyway, a quick google for ext4 “no space left” shows I’m far from alone in this. Caveat emptor**.
** What is latin for “installer” anyway? 
Tags: bugs, dvb, ext4, filesystems, FOSS, hvr, kernel, linux
