Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:43:04 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> To: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Olivier_Cochard=2DLabb=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: <CAGH67wS1bErcsQDU1y8WCicGe-m8YMzbnh8QnTW=XxkK-76UOQ@mail.gmail.com> 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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2011/11/17 Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>: > 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 >> 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 issue i= s > real. =A0Please file the PR. > > The default block and fragment size for UFS/FFS were bumped by mckusick i= n > r222319 (to general assent); presumably the installer should gain some lo= gic > to use smaller values for smaller disks, so that the available number of > inodes is larger. =A0(I presume that you have successfully installed earl= ier > releases on 4G disk, of course. =A0Though ... I think I may have, myself.= ) > =A0The ports tree has a very large number of small files, and is thus a v= ery > intensive user of inodes. > > > Alas, my five minutes of searching were not enough to find where bsdinsta= ll > is actually generating default filesystem options, so I couldn't confirm > this assumption. Look for newfs_command in gpart_ops.c . -Garrett
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