KBEC-00258 - An attempt was made to create more links on a file than the file system supports

Summary

A CloudBees CD (CloudBees Flow) step may fail with an error such as:

Step error [ec:AgentFailedCreateWorkspace]: unable to run the command on the agent
The agent was unable to create the workspace directory: couldn’t create directory “\\\workspace\Job name agent name (1505181)”: An attempt was made to create more links on a file than the file system supports (error code 1142).

This is because the file system being used as the workspace has reached its maximum count of files/directories within a directory.

Solution

For Linux, switching the filesystem from ext2 or ext3 to ext4 will allow more files and directories within a directory.

Additional tips:

• Split one root workspace into several workspaces to distribute files within a directory
• Purge files and directories within the workspace regularly to reduce files in the workspace.

Applies to

• Product versions: All
• OS versions: All