bug#40447:

[Danny Milosavljevic]

Hi Brendan,

On Mon, 6 Apr 2020 00:46:48 +1000
Brendan Tildesley <address@hidden> wrote:

> Closing since it seems to unrelated. Sorry for wasting your time. 

No, if in doubt, please always report.

>I 
> think it may have been my ext4 having too many files. i deleted all my 
> system generations and gc'd a lot of stuff, and it seems to be miss 
> behaving. perhaps it is a different kind of guix bug that it doesnt cope 
> with this issue:
> 
> 
> [ 7862.196231] EXT4-fs warning (device sdb1): ext4_dx_add_entry:2343: 
> Directory (ino: 24903688) index full, reach max htree level :2
> [ 7862.196241] EXT4-fs warning (device sdb1): ext4_dx_add_entry:2347: 
> Large directory feature is not enabled on this filesystem

Is there already a bug report for that problem?  I think the least we
could do is check on startup if that ext4 option is set or not--or
better yet, automatically degrade deduplication to duplication when it
doesn't work otherwise.

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