re: port-sun2/56158: sun2 m68000: super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: 32,nbmakefs: Writing inode 152 (work/./bin/cat), bytes 528384 + 4096: No space left on device

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

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From: matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>
To: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw%lug-owl.de@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, Chris Pinnock <cjep%netbsd.org@localhost>,
    gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
    Chris Pinnock <chris_pinnock%mac.com@localhost>
Subject: re: port-sun2/56158: sun2 m68000: super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: 32,nbmakefs: Writing inode 152 (work/./bin/cat), bytes 528384 + 4096: No space left on device
Date: Sun, 09 May 2021 07:18:59 +1000

 guess here -- do you by chance have HAVE_GCC=10 set in the
 environment some where?  i see that with GCC 10 and sun2.
 
 sun2 is still using GCC 9 because the ramdisk overflows like
 this and the kernel is already too large with the currently
 sized ramdisk to be loaded.  (the kernel has a limited size,
 and it has grown some with GCC 10, and also, the ramdisk has
 overflowed it's allocation, wanting the kernel to be even
 larger to accept the ramdisk.  i have no real solution as
 the INSTALL kernel and the ramdisk are both already extremely
 limited..
 
 
 .mrg.