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


2011/11/17 Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>:
> 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
>> only.
>> 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 i=
s
> real. =A0Please file the PR.
>
> The default block and fragment size for UFS/FFS were bumped by mckusick i=
n
> r222319 (to general assent); presumably the installer should gain some lo=
gic
> to use smaller values for smaller disks, so that the available number of
> inodes is larger. =A0(I presume that you have successfully installed earl=
ier
> releases on 4G disk, of course. =A0Though ... I think I may have, myself.=
)
> =A0The ports tree has a very large number of small files, and is thus a v=
ery
> intensive user of inodes.
>
>
> Alas, my five minutes of searching were not enough to find where bsdinsta=
ll
> is actually generating default filesystem options, so I couldn't confirm
> this assumption.

Look for newfs_command in gpart_ops.c .
-Garrett
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