Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 02:00:20 GMT From: Patrick Barletta <teamdest@pbarletta.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/163051: Small disk sizes with 4k sectors have far too few inodes in RC2 Message-ID: <201112040200.pB420Kf5089796@red.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201112041013.pB4ADns3065088@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 163051 >Category: misc >Synopsis: Small disk sizes with 4k sectors have far too few inodes in RC2 >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Dec 04 10:13:48 UTC 2011 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Patrick Barletta >Release: 9.0 RC2 >Organization: Blazenet.org >Environment: FreeBSD loki 9.0-RC2 FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 #0: Sat Nov 12 18:35:25 UTC 2011 root@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 >Description: When installing a 9.0 system to a small disk (such as might be used on a virtual machine), so few inodes are allocated that after the installation of the ports tree and possibly one or two trivial operations, no inodes are left free. Supposedly this is a problem related to the switchover to 4k sectors from 512 byte ones, but I have not verified that. The solution may be as simple as change the inode allocation density when installing on small system drives (in this case, a 5GB VMDK drive under vSphere 5) >How-To-Repeat: Install FreeBSD 9.0 RC2 on a small system partition (Under 8 GB or so). >Fix: Possibly change the inode allocation density when running newfs on the system at installation. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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