From: John Kehayias via Guix-patches via <guix-patches@gnu.org>
To: "50768@debbugs.gnu.org" <50768@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: [bug#50768] [PATCH] installer: Reorder file system type listbox.
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 21:24:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pxd7sSLhOfpPrh49sK8ZtDxYICwmDaVoEvqP_zzgUY9GSD94VFdwAC8PHrbL95keWsKLaxsr-Y5bCVyD0wpmCgix0hXjNb1RjofYr0xssBg=@protonmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210923175950.13586-1-me@tobias.gr>
Hello,
On this front, a related issue has been ext4 and large directories in Guix. Namely, that /gnu/store/.links quickly has many, many files (I'm at 9.9 million right now). This leads to warnings on ext4 and usually one will find that enabling large_dir will increase the file directory cap. Unfortunately, that is not compatible with Grub. This is what happened to me and was a bit of a mess (I reinstalled with Btrfs), and I know you (Tobias) also saw this in this thread: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2020-06/msg00015.html
So to the patch at hand, I'm wondering if we should make a note of this in file system selection in the installer (and in the manual in a few places). I don't know the actual ramifications of getting those directory full warnings in ext4, but I can see it easily leading to a problem booting a system with large_dir, as happened to me. I've submitted a bug to Grub, though this is well known, without response in plans to support a 4-year-old ext4 option. Since we expect Guix to have this huge directory, at least currently, I think we could avoid this issue with some warnings.
Sorry if this is a little astray for this patch, but thought it would be good to bring up.
Thanks,
John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-24 21:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-23 17:59 [bug#50768] [PATCH] installer: Reorder file system type listbox Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via
2021-09-24 21:24 ` John Kehayias via Guix-patches via [this message]
2021-10-13 8:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-10-21 18:41 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via
2021-10-25 9:29 ` [bug#50768] ext4 & btrfs Ludovic Courtès
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