From: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
To: Chris Mason <clmason@fusionio.com>
Cc: "linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Issue building a file based rootfs image with mkfs.btrfs
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 08:25:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <525C0CE8.2040401@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FD85C8284EBEEA498A3405D29590BB980E67CC58@MBS1.int.fusionio.com>
On 10/01/2013 06:18 PM, Chris Mason wrote:
> Hi Saul,
>
> The patch ended up a little bigger than I expected because it is sharing infrastructure with btfs-convert. Travel added a little more delay, but I'm almost there.
>
Any news on this patch?
Sau!
> -chris
> ________________________________________
> From: Saul Wold [sgw@linux.intel.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2013 4:50 PM
> To: Chris Mason
> Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: Issue building a file based rootfs image with mkfs.btrfs
>
> On 09/28/2013 05:29 AM, Chris Mason wrote:
>> Quoting Saul Wold (2013-09-19 14:19:34)
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> I am attempting to build a rootfs image from an existing rootfs
>>> directory tree. I am using the 0.20 @ 194aa4a of Chris's git repo.
>>>
>>> The couple problem I saw was that the target image file needed to exist,
>>> although I think I can patch that then the FS size was much larger than
>>> the actual size, I tracked this to the usage of ftw not accounting for
>>> symlinks, I have a patch for that which I will send once I finish
>>> getting the other issues resolved.
>>>
>>> Next issue I hit was an assertion failure after getting "not enough free
>>> space" message:
>>>
>>> not enough free space
>>> add_file_items failed
>>> unable to traverse_directory
>>> Making image is aborted.
>>> mkfs.btrfs: mkfs.c:1542: main: Assertion `!(ret)' failed.
>>>
>>> I am kind of stuck on this one, took it as far as I can right now.
>>> Would I be better off dropping back to 0.19 or can we move forward
>>> fixing this?
>>
>> Hi Saul,
>>
>> Update on my end, the problem is the image code expects every file to
>> fit inside a single chunk. It's only creating 8MB chunks, so any file
>> over 8MB in size is causing problems.
>>
>> I'm fixing it up here, I should have a patch for you on Monday.
>>
> Any update on this? Just curious.
>
> Thanks
> Sau!
>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -chris
>>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-14 15:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-19 18:19 Issue building a file based rootfs image with mkfs.btrfs Saul Wold
2013-09-22 18:28 ` Saul Wold
2013-09-28 12:29 ` Chris Mason
2013-09-28 17:51 ` Saul Wold
2013-10-01 14:35 ` David Sterba
2013-10-01 14:56 ` Wang Shilong
2013-10-01 20:50 ` Saul Wold
2013-10-02 1:18 ` Chris Mason
2013-10-14 15:25 ` Saul Wold [this message]
2013-10-14 15:26 ` Chris Mason
2013-10-14 20:51 ` Chris Mason
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