Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 13:10:03 -0800 (PST) From: "Buddenberg, Rex" <budden@nps.navy.mil> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: misc/35150: FreeBSD 4.5 won't install ... out of inodes Message-ID: <200202222110.g1MLA3192826@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR misc/35150; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Buddenberg, Rex" <budden@nps.navy.mil> To: "'cjclark@alum.mit.edu'" <cjclark@alum.mit.edu>, "Buddenberg, Rex" <budden@nps.navy.mil> Cc: 'Bill McNAMARA' <wimac@tidhom1g.grenoble.hp.com>, bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: RE: misc/35150: FreeBSD 4.5 won't install ... out of inodes Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 13:03:03 -0800 I think i follow the analysis, Crist. Thanks. And yes, smartening up Sysinstall would be the right approach. Perhaps a better one would be to smarten up the documentation so dummies like me know what overrides make sense. So ... what should I do at installation time to make 4.5 run properly on these beasts? Thanks again. > -----Original Message----- > From: Crist J. Clark [mailto:crist.clark@attbi.com] > Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 11:39 AM > To: Buddenberg, Rex > Cc: 'Bill McNAMARA'; bug-followup@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: misc/35150: FreeBSD 4.5 won't install ... out of inodes > > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 10:30:42AM -0800, Buddenberg, Rex wrote: > > Bill, Christ, > > > > We're pretty close to the smoking gun ... here's what I > squeezed out of the > > drive: > > > > > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity iused > ifree %iused > > Mounted on > > /dev/ad0s1a 257980 62800 174544 26% 1276 > 14978 8% > > / > > > > Note that /usr doesn't show up on the troubled drive at all > (and vfstab is > > entirely > > missing from /etc). I manually mounted /dev/ad0s1f to /usr > where it belongs > > and > > got this: > > /dev/ad0s1f 515996 124 474596 0% 3 > 32507 0% > > /usr > > Yep. Looks like 16K blocks in each. > > > > > On a normal FreeBSD 4.4 installation (similar sized disk), > I got this: > > > > /dev/ad0s1a 99183 32339 58910 35% 1498 > 23588 6% / > > /dev/ad0s1f 964359 642238 244973 72% 82806 > 159240 34% /usr > > /dev/ad0s1e 19815 1777 16453 10% 286 > 4768 6% /var > > procfs 4 4 0 100% 42 > 490 8% > > /proc > > Those are 4K blocks? I would expect 8K from newfs(8)'s source. > > > I used all the default settings on installation ... no > tweaks whatsoever. > > Since I can boot up in single user mode, the problem > appears to show up > > wholly > > in /usr. > > No, it just that there are that many more files in /usr that you ran > out of inodes in /usr. The default 8K to 16K was changed in revision > 1.30.2.8 of newfs.c. > > A 500 MB partition is tiny by today's standards. Sometime you have to > make the choice, do you focus support the few using _really_ old stuff > or the majority on much newer hardware. Of course, the other > possibility is to make sysinstall(8) smarter about this kind of thing > (and about partition sizing, and about...), but someone can always > figure out a situation where any simple rules break down and the > discussions tend to bikeshed. > > So, I don't really think the bug is in newfs(8). newfs(8) does not > really need to be too smart. I think if there is a bug here at all, it > would be sysinstall(8) not being smart enough to tell newfs(8) how to > do things better. > -- > Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu > | cjclark@jhu.edu > http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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