Re: test of makefs in kfreebsd d-i

[Luca Favatella <slackydeb@gmail.com>]

On 05/08/2009, Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de> wrote:
> Luca Favatella dixit:
>
>>* a screenshot of the problem I get in the (monolithic) image built
>>  using makefs
>
> Ok, I see now (forwarded to workplace):
[...]
> cf. http://www.mirbsd.org/htman/i386/man8/makefs.htm
>
> I’d say your best bet is to use -f without ‘%’ – you should know beforehand
> though roughly how many new inodes (symlinks, devices (probably not, due to
> devfs), temp files) you’ll need; they’re allocated in groups, so a guessti-
> mate is okay.

I committed in the kfreebsd branch a draft patch using "-f"; see
http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/d-i?view=rev&revision=59940

It looks like there are no regressions in the produced monolithic and
netboot images.


> //mirabilos

Thanks,
Luca Favatella