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[bug#50768] [PATCH] installer: Reorder file system type listbox.
From: |
John Kehayias |
Subject: |
[bug#50768] [PATCH] installer: Reorder file system type listbox. |
Date: |
Fri, 24 Sep 2021 21:24:11 +0000 |
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