Ran that and yes the snapshot area filled up BEFORE the errors. Let me know what I can do....
MikeD On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 16:31 -0600, Douglas McClendon wrote: > Mike Dickson wrote: > > Guys, > > > > I got a LiveCD + Persistence usb drive running from your scripts, but > > got I/O errors if I tried to do a yum update. > > > > Before that I was able to vi test.txt and put some text in and it > > survived a reboot. > > > > What can I do to address the i/o errors? > > My first question/explanation would be that you filled up the snapshot > device. This is quite possible, as a yum install involves creating > several copies of the actual files you end up installing. > > The way to see if this is what is happening would be to have another > terminal open, and periodically watch the output of "dmsetup status". > As new blocks are written to the rootfs snapshot device, you will see > the snapshot filling up. > > If you get these IO errors even before the snapshot fills up, please try > to post some more detailed output. > > In general, as discussed there are pros and cons with this method, and a > unionfs method. I do think there are ways to work around the cons of > this method in such a way that it is useful. For instance, I'll play > around and see if I can prescribe a process of using yum that will get > it to create all of its intermediate files in a native tmpfs (/dev/shm > or the like) instead of the rootfs, so that they don't eat into the > snapshot space. Likewise, now that I have my first actual tester, maybe > I'll figure out some other creative ways to improve the method (I have > some ideas I need to experiment with...). > > Thanks, > > -dmc > > > > > > > MikeD > > > > "Messsage from [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at > > kernel: journal commit i/o error" > > > > > > On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 04:07 -0800, Mike Dickson wrote: > >> I have some time now. I am attempting this tonight and tomorrow. I > >> will let you know. > >> > >> MikeD > >> > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > -- > > Fedora-livecd-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list >
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