From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Fri Sep 24 17:24:25 2021 Received: (at 50768) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Sep 2021 21:24:25 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59353 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mTsgD-0006L7-F7 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 24 Sep 2021 17:24:25 -0400 Received: from mail-4322.protonmail.ch ([185.70.43.22]:17883) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mTsgB-0006Kl-0H for 50768@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 24 Sep 2021 17:24:23 -0400 Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 21:24:11 +0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=protonmail.com; s=protonmail; t=1632518656; bh=anOOtdKuX10ilH1SmFbvuDjhj7KGIjJjWJx47bwyNZ4=; h=Date:To:From:Reply-To:Subject:From; b=hTD1dz4aY2fpg6+L9EgdF6FVzGyghw5qpDjw+T4M06eNM0vGfLZSx5Tir5aqmaqgy wMZW45zsPv5aXWiN7Qt65AHI+rF7VS3qQXnmvupEiHclwU4YmvNiPbBYMdOc9XOrCy giFUyePrb0MV5tRZS59uIrugm2FqQT7/j6yTP/Zg= To: "50768@debbugs.gnu.org" <50768@debbugs.gnu.org> From: John Kehayias Subject: [PATCH] installer: Reorder file system type listbox. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=10.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VALID_EF,FREEMAIL_FROM shortcircuit=no autolearn=disabled version=3.4.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on mailout.protonmail.ch X-Spam-Score: -0.0 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 50768 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: John Kehayias Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) 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 mi= llion 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 b= it of a mess (I reinstalled with Btrfs), and I know you (Tobias) also saw t= his in this thread: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2020-06/ms= g00015.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 warn= ings 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 th= is is well known, without response in plans to support a 4-year-old ext4 op= tion. 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 go= od to bring up. Thanks, John