## TL;DR

The root cause is the storage filesystem, not the data Qdrant's newer storage engine uses memory-mapped files that require a POSIX-compliant filesystem. The maintainers confirmed unsupported setups include FUSE filesystems (Unraid's /mnt/user on top of btrfs) and Windows host directories mounted into WSL2/Docker, whose implementation is not fully POSIX compliant. Fix: keep Qdrant storage on a native Linux filesystem.

## When to use

You are seeing this: Running Qdrant in Docker, the server entered an unstable state after inserting roughly 900 of 30,439 items. Use this skill when you run into "Qdrant panic "OutputTooSmall { expected: 4, actual: 0 }" in gridstore.rs causing collection instability".

## When not to use

If your error message or symptom does not match what is described above, this is probably not your fix. Search for your exact error text instead of forcing this one to fit.

## Versions

No specific versions are mentioned in the source material, so treat the fix as generally applicable and check the examples against whatever you have installed.

## The problem

Running Qdrant in Docker, the server entered an unstable state after inserting roughly 900 of 30,439 items. Repeated panics with "called Result::unwrap() on an Err value: OutputTooSmall { expected: 4, actual: 0 }" from gridstore.rs appeared, optimization tasks started failing, and vectors failed validation with 500 errors. The reporter ran Docker on Unraid with appdata on btrfs; others reproduced it with Docker on Windows/WSL2 using a host-mounted storage directory. All reports shared one pattern: the storage path lived on a filesystem that is not fully POSIX compliant.

## The verified fix

The root cause is the storage filesystem, not the data Qdrant's newer storage engine uses memory-mapped files that require a POSIX-compliant filesystem. The maintainers confirmed unsupported setups include FUSE filesystems (Unraid's /mnt/user on top of btrfs) and Windows host directories mounted into WSL2/Docker, whose implementation is not fully POSIX compliant. Fix: keep Qdrant storage on a native Linux filesystem. On Unraid, mounting /mnt/cache directly instead of /mnt/user resolved it; on Docker Desktop/WSL2 use a Docker volume (storage stays inside the Linux VM) rather than a host bind mount; for Podman Desktop create a Podman volume and use its mount point. One reporter confirmed the volume switch fixed it "100%". Qdrant added a startup filesystem check in PR #6682 and documented supported storage at https://qdrant.tech/documentation/guides/installation/#storage and the incompatibility note at https://qdrant.tech/documentation/guides/common-errors/#incompatible-file-system. Source: https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/issues/6758

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