* [bug#72035] [PATCH] installer: Create ext4 file systems with ‘-O large_dir’.
@ 2024-07-10 13:23 Ludovic Courtès
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From: Ludovic Courtès @ 2024-07-10 13:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Cc: Ludovic Courtès, Josselin Poiret, Ludovic Courtès,
Mathieu Othacehe
* gnu/installer/parted.scm (create-ext4-file-system): Pass
‘-O large_dir’ to ‘mkfs.ext4’.
Change-Id: Ie34039ed03f273505e7f7fb5c3241120e3395ba2
---
gnu/installer/parted.scm | 10 ++++++++--
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gnu/installer/parted.scm b/gnu/installer/parted.scm
index 51fa7cf9d9c..dbdec1bba82 100644
--- a/gnu/installer/parted.scm
+++ b/gnu/installer/parted.scm
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
;;; Copyright © 2018, 2019 Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
-;;; Copyright © 2019, 2020, 2022 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+;;; Copyright © 2019-2020, 2022, 2024 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;; Copyright © 2020 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
;;; Copyright © 2022 Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz>
;;;
@@ -1187,7 +1187,13 @@ (define (create-btrfs-file-system partition)
(define (create-ext4-file-system partition)
"Create an ext4 file-system for PARTITION file-name."
- ((run-command-in-installer) "mkfs.ext4" "-F" partition))
+ ;; Enable the 'large_dir' feature so users can have a store of several TiBs.
+ ;; Failing to do that, the directory index (enabled by 'dir_index') can fill
+ ;; up and adding new files would fail with ENOSPC despite there being plenty
+ ;; of free space and inodes:
+ ;; <https://blog.merovius.de/posts/2013-10-20-ext4-mysterious-no-space-left-on/>.
+ ((run-command-in-installer) "mkfs.ext4" "-F" partition
+ "-O" "large_dir"))
(define (create-fat16-file-system partition)
"Create a fat16 file-system for PARTITION file-name."
base-commit: 922e943059050f05532ac8274e55e25ebe711cf5
--
2.45.2
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