Issue 1816: cope with AFS filesystem - Darcs bug tracker

Title	cope with AFS filesystem
Priority	wishlist	Status	given-up
Milestone		Resolved in
Superseder		Nosy List	bcoppens, darcs-devel, dmitry.kurochkin, kowey
Assigned To		Topics

Created on 2010-04-14.19:15:54 by bcoppens, last changed 2012-12-13.14:20:27 by markstos.

Messages
msg10733 (view)	Author: bcoppens	Date: 2010-04-14.19:15:53
When trying to pull the GHC repo (from a 2009 tarball on the site), Darcs fails with 'openFd: permission denied (File too large)' when on the AFS filesystem. This seems to be due to a limitation of the AFS filesystem, where the number of characters in all filenames in a directory seems to be limited (see http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/systems/AFS/topten.html#Tip13 for more details). I have been told that bucketing would mitigate this problem :-)
msg10734 (view)	Author: kowey	Date: 2010-04-14.19:23:13
Thanks for the report, Bart. Is it reasonable to you to use a repo on a different filesystem as a workaround?
msg10735 (view)	Author: bcoppens	Date: 2010-04-14.19:29:20
Yes, as a workaround doing it on ext3 works too. (It is somewhat annoying but it's not the end of the world.)
msg16404 (view)	Author: markstos	Date: 2012-12-13.14:20:26
No one has expressed interest in this feature for 3 years, so I'm marking this as "given-up" to help keep the the bug queue size manageable. Further discussion of AFS compatibility could still be entertained if someone appears who is interested to implement it.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2010-04-14 19:15:54	bcoppens	create
2010-04-14 19:23:14	kowey	set	priority: wishlist nosy: + kowey messages: + msg10734 title: Cannot pull GHC repository on AFS filesystem -> cope with AFS filesystem
2010-04-14 19:29:21	bcoppens	set	messages: + msg10735
2012-12-13 14:20:27	markstos	set	status: unknown -> given-up messages: + msg16404