> Hello there, > > I'm working with F20 and CentOS 7 to create some live booted images. I'm not looking to do live USB/CD media, but rather boot a server over the network with a kernel, initramfs, and squashfs. It's working well so far, but I have a filesystem issue that I can't seem to fix. > > My build scripts create a 10GB sparse file and I fill that with an ext4 filesystem. I package that up into a squashfs as specified in the docs[1]. That boots just fine. > > However, if I attempt to fill the filesystem, it fills and becomes corrupt much earlier than I'd expect. I've put some log info into a gist[2]. > > My expectation is that if I create a 10GB live filesystem and and the system has > 10GB of RAM available, I'd expect that I could store somewhere around 10GB of data in the live filesystem before I run into a full filesystem. Is that expectation incorrect? Am I configuring something incorrectly? > > Thanks for taking the time to read this far. :) Hey, I am not completely if it is this issue you are seeing, but a squashfs image takes more memory then the image itself, becasue you first need to unsquash (in ram) and the load the fs pages into ram. Also take a look here: http://dummdida.tumblr.com/post/89051342705/taking-a-look-at-the-rootfs-footprint-of-a-livecd-and-a - fabian > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LiveOS_image > [2] https://gist.github.com/major/d4e9f447ab942edd7952 > > -- > Major Hayden > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
