Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:54:39 -0500 (EST) From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU> To: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Olivier_Cochard-Labb=E9?= <olivier@cochard.me> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, nwhitehorn@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't install FreeBSD-amd64-9.0-RC2: "/mnt: out of inodes" Message-ID: <alpine.GSO.1.10.1111172244190.882@multics.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <CA%2Bq%2BTcotZu6%2BjoAA8gj-w2z9qgEyLCPA-VXB6bmoVGNKms0XnQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CA%2Bq%2BTcotZu6%2BjoAA8gj-w2z9qgEyLCPA-VXB6bmoVGNKms0XnQ@mail.gmail.com>
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This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. ---559023410-2067485818-1321588480=:882 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE On Thu, 17 Nov 2011, Olivier Cochard-Labb=E9 wrote: > Hi all, > > I tried to install FreeBSD-9.0-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso (SHA256 verified) on > a VM and meet a reproducible problem: > The VM has 128Mo RAM and a 4Go hard drive. > > During install process I choose these distribution sets: ports and src on= ly. > And I'm using guided partitioning / Entire Disk / All Auto > > But each time (I delete and re-create a new VM multiple times) the > installer failed during archive extraction of ports.txz (at about 88% > progress of this file extraction) with this message: > > Error while extracting ports.txz: > Can't create > 'usr/ports/databases/p5-DBIx-Sunny/pkg-plist' > > And on the background there is this message: > ...on /mnt: out of inodes > > Can someone else confirm this problem before I fill a PR ? A 4G disk is perhaps quite rare these days, but I expect that the issue is= =20 real. Please file the PR. The default block and fragment size for UFS/FFS were bumped by mckusick in= =20 r222319 (to general assent); presumably the installer should gain some=20 logic to use smaller values for smaller disks, so that the available=20 number of inodes is larger. (I presume that you have successfully=20 installed earlier releases on 4G disk, of course. Though ... I think I=20 may have, myself.) The ports tree has a very large number of small files,= =20 and is thus a very intensive user of inodes. Alas, my five minutes of searching were not enough to find where=20 bsdinstall is actually generating default filesystem options, so I=20 couldn't confirm this assumption. Thanks for the report, Ben Kaduk ---559023410-2067485818-1321588480=:882--
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