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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Guix System ext4 index full
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2020 19:06:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200603230647.GA18842@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87img7df80.fsf@nckx>

On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 11:14:23PM +0200, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
> Unfortunately, once that hash table fills up, the premier stable Linux file
> system just… gives up and refuses to write any more data.  In a very cryptic
> way.

It's so cryptic... I wonder how often people hit this limit in practice?
Is Guix the only place it happens often? Maybe we can ask the kernel
devs to improve the error reporting here.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-03 23:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-03 20:21 Guix System ext4 index full Roel Janssen
2020-06-03 20:35 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2020-06-04  9:33   ` Roel Janssen
2020-06-04 13:05     ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2020-06-04 13:27       ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2020-06-04 18:55       ` Roel Janssen
2020-06-04 19:00         ` Vincent Legoll
2020-06-03 20:43 ` Vincent Legoll
2020-06-03 21:14   ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2020-06-03 23:06     ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2020-06-04  9:27       ` Pierre Neidhardt

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