gfs_tool df shows 100% of the available inodes used on my GFS filesystem on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • gfs_tool df shows 100% of the available inodes shown being used:
# gfs_tool df /cluster/pool/media_stage/
/cluster/pool/media_stage:
[....]

    Type           Total          Used           Free           use%
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    inodes         75023          75023          0              100%
    metadata       602625         6417           596208         1%
    data           1760304        1758484        1820           100%

Environment

  • Red Hat Cluster Suite 4+ and Red Hat GFS 6.1
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 (with the High Availability and Resilient Storage Add Ons)
  • GFS(1) filesystem (GFS2 not affected by this issue)
    • Unable to update the filesystem due to no space, but there is very little space used by data.

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