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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
Cc: 46905@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46905: Add a note about ext4's dir_index to the manual
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2021 23:01:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87blbymvd5.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9a89c8v.fsf@nckx> (Tobias Geerinckx-Rice's message of "Wed, 03 Mar 2021 22:08:16 +0100")

Hi!

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> skribis:

> Mainly a reminder to myself to do so.
>
> Guix can break ext4, and more than once has, with a inscrutable error
> message.  We should document it explicitly.
>
> See <http://logs.guix.gnu.org/guix/2021-03-03.log#220037>.

You wrote:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
<nckx>OK, that's the culprit (it's common: ext4 has a design flaw in that it hashes directory entries and... just
dies when the hash table gets ‘full’). Try ‘tune2fs -E "hash_alg=tea" /dev/foo’ to select a different hash algo, or
‘tune2fs -O "^dir_index" /dev/foo’ to disable it completely if that doesn't help.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Really?  I’ve almost always used ‘dir_index’ in my Guix + NixOS days,
and IIRC store accesses were much slower before that was a thing.

On berlin, /gnu is a 37 TiB file system with ‘dir_index’ turned on and
it works well.

I don’t think we can claim there’s a design flaw.  WDYT?

Ludo’.




  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-04 22:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-03 21:08 bug#46905: Add a note about ext4's dir_index to the manual Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-03-04 22:01 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2021-03-04 22:38   ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-03-08 14:26     ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-03-04 22:28 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix

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