Re: Hard Disk size limits on GNU Hurd

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

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.

Saumel