Re: Can't install FreeBSD-amd64-9.0-RC2: "/mnt: out of inodes"

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On Thu, 17 Nov 2011, Olivier Cochard-Labb=E9 wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I tried to install FreeBSD-9.0-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso (SHA256 verified) on
> a VM and meet a reproducible problem:
> The VM has 128Mo RAM and a 4Go hard drive.
>
> During install process I choose these distribution sets: ports and src on=
ly.
> And I'm using guided partitioning / Entire Disk / All Auto
>
> But each time (I delete and re-create a new VM multiple times) the
> installer failed during archive extraction of ports.txz (at about 88%
> progress of this file extraction) with this message:
>
> Error while extracting ports.txz:
> Can't create
> 'usr/ports/databases/p5-DBIx-Sunny/pkg-plist'
>
> And on the background there is this message:
> ...on /mnt: out of inodes
>
> Can someone else confirm this problem before I fill a PR ?

A 4G disk is perhaps quite rare these days, but I expect that the issue is=
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real.  Please file the PR.

The default block and fragment size for UFS/FFS were bumped by mckusick in=
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r222319 (to general assent); presumably the installer should gain some=20
logic to use smaller values for smaller disks, so that the available=20
number of inodes is larger.  (I presume that you have successfully=20
installed earlier releases on 4G disk, of course.  Though ... I think I=20
may have, myself.)  The ports tree has a very large number of small files,=
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and is thus a very intensive user of inodes.

Alas, my five minutes of searching were not enough to find where=20
bsdinstall is actually generating default filesystem options, so I=20
couldn't confirm this assumption.

Thanks for the report,

Ben Kaduk
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