Hello, Split the issues apart since they are really not related at all.
Bruno Haible via Bug reports for the GNU Hurd, le mar. 14 janv. 2025 00:38:45 +0100, a ecrit: > ** File system problems > > After copying a gnulib testdir (created under Linux through a > command > $ ./gnulib-tool --create-testdir --dir=../testdir-all --with-c++-tests > --without-privileged-tests --single-configure `./all-modules` > ) to Hurd and building it > $ ./configure > make > make check > > 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. Samuel
