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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2025-11-24 15:51:09 +0100 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2025-12-03 17:49:40 +0100 |
| commit | e7da674bc7edd2321e42ef021c8925fefa995313 (patch) | |
| tree | 32fb338c8aa1bec4a1c2e629e82f8d83565e74bd /gnu/build | |
| parent | 2d549178e102761dff86f3be12c3bc1979f52efb (diff) | |
image: Create directory indexes for ext4 images.
Fixes a bug whereby the store in ext4 partitions created with
‘guix system image’ would be limited to 65,000 sub-directories.
* gnu/build/image.scm (make-ext-image): Invoke “e2fsck -fDy”.
Fixes: guix/guix#4396
Change-Id: I02d3470fac8bdd8971083be8fce192b72bf6510c
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/build')
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/build/image.scm | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/build/image.scm b/gnu/build/image.scm index c99446f7382..d68fb29e05a 100644 --- a/gnu/build/image.scm +++ b/gnu/build/image.scm @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU -;;; Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> +;;; Copyright © 2013-2020, 2025 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> ;;; Copyright © 2016 Christine Lemmer-Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> ;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017 Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> ;;; Copyright © 2017 Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> @@ -118,7 +118,14 @@ turn doesn't take any constant overhead into account, force a 1-MiB minimum." (size-in-kib (if (eq? size 'guess) (estimate-partition-size root) - size))))))) + size))))) + + ;; 'mke2fs' does not create directory indexes by default, meaning that + ;; directories have a limit of 65,000 sub-directories, which can be + ;; problematic for the store. To avoid that, run 'e2fsck -D' to create + ;; those directory indexes. See + ;; <https://github.com/tytso/e2fsprogs/issues/257>. + (invoke "e2fsck" "-fDy" target))) (define* (make-f2fs-image partition target root #:key |