Excerpts from Dan Pascu's message of Wed Nov 26 11:51:43 +0100 2008: > On Wednesday 26 November 2008, Jason Dagit wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Robin Bate Boerop > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > Jason, > > > > > > Thanks for caring. Here's the output of 'darcs show repo': > > > Type: darcs > > > Format: hashed, darcs-2 > > > Root: /home/bnnb/web/BNNB_Plone3 > > > Pristine: HashedPristine > > > Cache: thisrepo:/home/bnnb/web/BNNB_Plone3 > > > Num Patches: 0 > > > > > > Yes, that's right - this is the first 'darcs record'. Previously, I > > > tried adding the same files to another repo; it failed, and I thought > > > there was a corruption in the repo. So, I made a new one, and tried > > > again. Same result. > > > > > > Something different about this repo: I've removed almost everything > > > from _darcs/prefs/boring, because I really do want everything in the > > > repo - binary files and all. The 'darcs record' is trying to add 211 > > > MB of files to the repo, spread across about 30,000 files. > > > > I bet 211MB is fine. I think we can test that fairly easily too. But, > > 30,000 files could be a problem. I know that the sheer number of files > > ext3 has a limit on the number of files in a directory at 32768. it has > the same limit for the number of hard links to a file.
> As far a I know the darcs-2 hashed format keeps all the hashed files in a > single directory. Same for patches. Indeed all pristine files and directories (represented as a list of files) are in _darcs/pristine.hashed, patches are all in _darcs/patches. > Maybe it did hit that limit and the > reported error is just obscure. > > Try the non-hashed format, or the darcs1 format and if the error goes > away, this may be the issue. > > > has been a problem in the past and the problem was fixed, but it could > > have come back. I certainly don't recall us having any stress tests of > > that magnitude. > > > > Any volunteers for this? I'm imagining it should be pretty easy to > > write a script that just creates lots of files in an empty repository > > and then tries to record them all. > > > > Thanks, > > Jason > -- Nicolas Pouillard aka Ertai _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
