Jack, Alex and Jan: Should we make the Sparc boot archive dcfs bug had a dependency on 13109 ???
Then we know when 13109 is fixed and Alex can fix the sparc dcfs bug. On 02/17/10 03:06 PM, Jack Schwartz wrote: > Hi Alex and Jan. > > The DDU uses pkg(5), and right now pkg(5) requires some extra space > for its catalog caching operations. Bug 13109 documents this to be > ~90Mb extra ramdisk space now, which is too large to work. However, > even with a fix some extra ramdisk space will likely be needed. Since > no fix is implemented yet I can't say how much. Unless it is urgent, > I suggest holding off on changing the boot archive size until 13109 > has been fixed or at least better addressed. > > I hope that helps, > Jack > > > > On 02/17/10 02:29, Alexander Eremin wrote: >> On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 10:57 +0100, Jan Damborsky wrote: >>> Hi Alex, >>> >>> looking at this bug and fixed related issues, I agree we could now >>> get rid of dcfs assuming that we can sacrifice free space in ramdisk >>> we are going to lose (~ 25MB): >>> >>> [1] We need to make sure that there are no issues with >>> respect to 'supposed to work' configurations. >>> >>> Currently, installers (AI/text) are supposed to work on Sparc >>> machines with 512MB of memory. >>> >>> I don't assume that fix for 6361 itself would cause problems, >>> since it does not change the size of ramdisk, but we should check >>> that we can still install on those machines with latest bits >>> in order to confirm we can afford losing those ~25MB which >>> (if needed) could be used to decrease size of ramdisk. >>> >>> I think Mary has access to machines which we could use for testing - >>> we could help you with this. >>> >>> [2] We should check with DDU project which could introduce potential >>> consumers of ramdisk space. >>> >>> Jack, do you happen to know how DDU might affect size boot archive >>> and free space in ramdisk ? >>> >>> Thank you, >>> Jan >> Thanks Jan, >> agree, so waiting answer from Jack and it's would be fine if >> Mary could test boot_archive without dcfs on 512MB. >> >> >
