I am out of the chess game. Any news? MikeD
On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 02:33 +0000, Mike Dickson wrote: > I just finished trying to download JBoss Developer Studio and > installing it on the thumb drive. It filled up again. I then dropped > the .jar on the stick hoping that I could install from that and it > filled up again. Checkmate. > > MikeD > > On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 15:30 -0800, Mike Dickson wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > > -- > > Fedora-livecd-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list > > -- > Fedora-livecd-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list
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