Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:01:01 -0600 From: Ron McDowell <rcm@fuzzwad.org> To: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU> Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Olivier_Cochard-Labb=E9?= <olivier@cochard.me>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, nwhitehorn@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't install FreeBSD-amd64-9.0-RC2: "/mnt: out of inodes" Message-ID: <4EC6FFCD.4080509@fuzzwad.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.GSO.1.10.1111172244190.882@multics.mit.edu> References: <CA%2Bq%2BTcotZu6%2BjoAA8gj-w2z9qgEyLCPA-VXB6bmoVGNKms0XnQ@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.GSO.1.10.1111172244190.882@multics.mit.edu>
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Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > 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=20 >> src only. >> 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=20 > issue is real. Please file the PR. > > The default block and fragment size for UFS/FFS were bumped by=20 > mckusick in r222319 (to general assent); presumably the installer=20 > should gain some logic to use smaller values for smaller disks, so=20 > that the available number of inodes is larger. (I presume that you=20 > have successfully installed earlier releases on 4G disk, of course. =20 > Though ... I think I may have, myself.) The ports tree has a very=20 > large number of small files, and is thus a very intensive user of inode= s. > > > 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 I see the same thing by creating 4gb filesystems for /usr/src and=20 /usr/obj on a larger hard disk, which, IMO, _is_ a reasonable thing to=20 do, and works fine on 8.2. --=20 Ron McDowell San Antonio TX
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