On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 12:30:54PM -0700, Douglas McClendon wrote: > Andrew Overholt wrote: >> * Andrew Overholt <overholt@xxxxxxxxxx> [2008-05-26 09:54]: >>> I've made some live USB sticks with persistent overlays for a few >>> people. 3 of the people have now told me that they can no longer boot >>> as they get IO errors with what looks like corrupted filesystems. >> >> 2 of the 3 have now confirmed for me that they hit hard lockups while >> running and had to hard-reboot their machines. Afterwards, they could >> not re-boot from the USB stick. >> >> Andrew > > Well known nature of the feature. See a post of mine on fedora-livecd-list > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-livecd-list/2008-May/msg00051.html > > I've suggested several times over the last 6 months that this issue be > well documented to set expectations appropriately. I don't understand how it could corrupt the UNDERLYING vfat partition, but that is what happend to me twice. I was unable to mount the USB stick as a normal vfat data drive from a regular (non-Live) booted system after filling and crashing the persistent overlay when it was booted as a Live USB system. It seems there is a vfat bug that is corrupting the filesystem. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
