Bruno Haible via Bug reports for the GNU Hurd, le mar. 14 janv. 2025 15:51:11 +0100, a ecrit: > Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > when I run 'sync' it hangs. I can interrupt the 'sync' command via > > > Ctrl-C and restart it, but it then still hangs. I ended up rebooted > > > anyway, and after reboot an 'fsck' was required. This 'fsck' found > > > between 17000 and 170000 empty directories (depending on how much time > > > I had let 'sync' run). The data (built files under testdir-all) was > > > good, though. > > > > disk writeback is a beast, yes. If tests are creating lots of data on > > the disk that's stressing the VM and possibly it even gets to OOM, which > > is a hard thing to recover from. > > But the effects - tens of thousands of directories to fix at the next 'fsck' - > make it look like something is *very* wrong.
Hard-rebooting without ext2fs being able to sync always means some odd stuff, that's not really surprising: it didn't finish its work. > Would it help to find out which part of the build process triggers this, That would be useful, yes. Samuel
