Re: Installing 9front

[Uriel <uriel@berlinblue.org>]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Matthew Veety <mveety@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/30/12 7:09 AM, Uriel wrote:
>>
>> 3) Not only are the disk space requirements are somewhat high, but you
>> get no warning if your disk is too small, you go all the way into
>> copydist, which barfs on disk full errors, but 'completes' anyway and
>> pretends it is done and that you can go on with the next install step.
>>
>> At the very least we should warn if the disk is too small, and
>> probably we should fail before going into copydist.
>
>
> I agree with you here, an option to use kfs would be awesome, especially
> because cwfs is overkill for non-fileserver cases.
>
> Also, I think work should be done to make cwfs a little more versatile when
> it comes to disk size.

I'm not convinced that adding extra complexity to save some Gb is
worth it, it creates a very different kind of system to test.

I'd rather handle properly the situations where there is no enough
space, and trim the system where it is reasonable (maybe look into a
way to 'clip' the hg history?)

Uriel