On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 09:15 -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:58:44PM -0400, Michael Solberg wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I'm sure someone's thought of this before, but I keep running into this > > issue on the LiveUSB on the XO. > > > > The issue is that /var/cache/yum is mounted as tmpfs on the Live image. > > When I log into a desktop session that already knows my wireless key, > > the updates applet attempts to download all the packages from Rawhide. > > This fills the 256MB of RAM pretty quickly and that hangs the machine. > > Does it make sense to turn that applet off in this case? Or maybe not > > mount /var/cache/yum as tmpfs when there's an overlay? > > I can easily fill the overlay and crash the LiveOS with ext3 errors. > Has any thought been put into how to solve this problem? The only real way to solve it is to move away from using dm-snapshot for the overlay and have some form of real unionfs. But that has its own level of "fun" problems that seems to go nowhere fast :/ Jeremy -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
