Subject: Re: bug#33676: GuixSD on eoma68-a20?

From: Mark H Weaver <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2018 14:04:58 -0500

Hi Andreas,

Andreas Enge <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 09:50:26PM +0100, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
>> can you check whether dirindex (hashtables for directory) is enabled?
>> # tune2fs -l /dev/... | grep -o dir_index
>> See also https://blog.merovius.de/2013/10/20/ext4-mysterious-no-space-left-on.html
>
> It was, and I disabled it. Hopefully this does not break anything...

Why did you disable it?

> But does this not mean a big performance hit on /gnu/store/.links?

I would expect disabling dir_index to be a big performance hit on Guix
systems, and especially those with a large store, such a build farm
master nodes.

      Mark