On 03/29/10 04:27 PM, Mark Wedel wrote:
>
> Trying to install OSOL 134 via AI (stock AI CD) image on a T5440, I get:
> Configuring devices.
> NOTICE: /: out of inodes
>
Bug 15073.
> devfsadm: symlink failed for /dev/rdsk/c8t39d0s1 ->
> ../../devices/p...@700/p...@0/p...@9/LSILogic,s...@0/s...@27,0:b,raw: No space
> left on device
> NOTICE: /: out of inodes
>
> devfsadm: symlink failed for /dev/rdsk/c8t39d0s2 ->
> ../../devices/p...@700/p...@0/p...@9/LSILogic,s...@0/s...@27,0:c,raw: No space
> left on device
> NOTICE: /: out of inodes
>
> devfsadm: symlink failed for /dev/rdsk/c8t39d0s3 ->
> ../../devices/p...@700/p...@0/p...@9/LSILogic,s...@0/s...@27,0:d,raw: No space
> left on device
> NOTICE: /: out of inodes
>
> <much more same messages deleted>
>
> And sure enough, taking a look, / is out of inodes:
> r...@opensolaris:~# df /
> / (/devices/ramdisk-root:a): 70368 blocks 0 files
>
> format finds 232 disks on the system.
>
> Is there some software work around for this? A hardware one would be to
> disconnect some of the J4500 connected to the system, but that is hardly
> ideal.
>
A software workaround is to use distro constructor to build a different
AI boot image that specifies a higher nbpi for the boot archive.
> As a quick estimate, it would seem that 32 inodes are needed for each
> disk (8 for each raw/non raw in /devices for the slices, 16 more for the
> symlinks).
>
> booting another system with only 2 disk, I see:
> / (/devices/ramdisk-root:a): 80574 blocks 4010 files
>
> 4010 / 32 = ~125
>
> So it would seem that current not possible to use AI installer on system
> with more than 128 disks or so. Is this an intentional limit?
>
Not intentional, the default value that DC calculates tries to limit the
size of the ramdisk, lowering overall memory requirements. Clearly it
needs to go a bit higher. Adding the above to the bug would be helpful.
Dave
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