Re: Issue building a file based rootfs image with mkfs.btrfs

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Hi Saul,

Sorry for the delay, I'll push the patch out this afternoon.

-chris

Quoting Saul Wold (2013-10-14 11:25:28)
> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2013 4:50 PM
> > To: Chris Mason
> > Cc: linux-btrfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 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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