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/pci at 700/pci at 0/pci at 9/LSILogic,sas at 0/sd at > 27,0:b,raw: No space > left on device > NOTICE: /: out of inodes > > devfsadm: symlink failed for /dev/rdsk/c8t39d0s2 -> > ../../devices/pci at 700/pci at 0/pci at 9/LSILogic,sas at 0/sd at > 27,0:c,raw: No space > left on device > NOTICE: /: out of inodes > > devfsadm: symlink failed for /dev/rdsk/c8t39d0s3 -> > ../../devices/pci at 700/pci at 0/pci at 9/LSILogic,sas at 0/sd at > 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: > root at 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 > > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
