Re: Hard Disk size limits on GNU Hurd

[Tanguy LE CARROUR]

Hi Samuel,


Quoting Samuel Thibault (2024-03-22 14:01:51)
> Tanguy LE CARROUR, le ven. 22 mars 2024 13:33:59 +0100, a ecrit:
> > Quoting Samuel Thibault (2024-03-22 12:37:33)
> > > Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez, le ven. 22 mars 2024 12:31:04 +0100, a ecrit:
> > > > Several years ago there was a limit in the size of the hard disks that 
> > > > Hurd
> > > > could manage. If i'm not wrong, i think it was 5 Gb. or so.
> > > > 
> > > > Is still this limit working right now?, or can i create a disk image 
> > > > (for
> > > > kvm) with the size i decide (20 Gb. let's say)?.
> > > 
> > > Please read the faq ;)
> > > 
> > > https://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/faq/
> > > https://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/faq/2_gib_partition_limit/
> > 
> > It was working fine until I ran short of disk space and increased it to
> > 20Gb.
> 
> Did you really increase the filesystem size as well?
> 
> > Now, it randomly crashes with error messages like:
> > 
> > ```
> > ext2fs: BUG: unexpected fault on disk image (10, 0x8ffc000) in
> > [0xB8222000,0x18222000) eip 0x8052224 err 0xa
> > ```
> > 
> > or:
> > 
> > ```
> > ext2fs: disk-pager.c:109: fault_handler: Assertion ’err’ failed.
> > ```
> 
> This looks to me like ENOSPC messages.

Oh… oh… the configuration of a childhurd, like everything else on Guix,
is declarative and… I have no clue how it works internally! 😅
Thanks for the hint! I’ll investigate!

Regards,

-- 
Tanguy