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From: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org>
To: guix-patches <at> gnu.org
Subject: ISO image & HFS+ tree
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2020 16:24:48 +0200

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Hello,

When running the "gui-installed-desktop-os-encrypted" test which
produces a big ISO9660 image (~4GiB), the following error occurs:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
xorriso : UPDATE :  434919 files added in 18 seconds
libisofs: FAILURE : HFS+ map nodes aren't implemented
libisofs: FAILURE : Too much files to mangle, cannot guarantee unique file names
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I asked Thomas Schmitt (of GNU Xorriso) about it. It seems that
producing an HFS+ tree could fail if a directory contains more than
30720 files.

HFS+ seems to be used to work-around filesystem limits that we don't
have on Intel architectures (see Thomas kind answer below).

Here's a patch that disables HFS+ tree production, and the solves the
problem above.

Thanks,

Mathieu

[0001-system-image-Do-not-produce-an-HFS-tree-when-buildin.patch (text/x-diff, inline)]

From 604adfe81615ea05905fc73d62fba59a19437cdf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2020 15:25:02 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] system: image: Do not produce an HFS tree when building an
 ISO.

Producing an HFS tree will fail if a directory has more that 30720 files. The
xorriso error message is:

xorriso : UPDATE :  434919 files added in 18 seconds
libisofs: FAILURE : HFS+ map nodes aren't implemented
libisofs: FAILURE : Too much files to mangle, cannot guarantee unique file names

Use "mbr_only" mode to make sure that no HFS+ tree are generated.

* gnu/system/image.scm (system-image): Set MKRESCUE_SED_MODE to "mbr_only".
---
 gnu/system/image.scm | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gnu/system/image.scm b/gnu/system/image.scm
index a0e6bf31f1..9e47bcc508 100644
--- a/gnu/system/image.scm
+++ b/gnu/system/image.scm
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ image, depending on IMAGE format."
                              #:inputs `(("system" ,os)
                                         ("bootcfg" ,bootcfg))
                              #:grub-mkrescue-environment
-                             '(("MKRESCUE_SED_MODE" . "mbr_hfs")))))))
+                             '(("MKRESCUE_SED_MODE" . "mbr_only")))))))
 
 (define (find-image file-system-type)
   "Find and return an image that could match the given FILE-SYSTEM-TYPE.  This
-- 
2.26.2

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