NAND out of space crash

[Erik Garrison]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:55:52AM -0400, Greg Smith wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I found http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7125 which looks like a good place 
> to track this problem.
> 
> I marked it blocker for 8.2.0.
> 
> Here's what I think we need:
> - Sugar GUI always starts, no matter how much space is free on the NAND.
> - If Sugar starts and you are low on space (exact size tbd) then we 
> should alert the user to start clearing space in the journal.
> 
> I think Eben will work on the second part. Can someone solve the first 
> part?
> 
> Suggested steps would be to propose a solution, get buy in, code it and 
> check it in.
> 
> I shouldn't have mentioned partitioning :-( All I meant was that we 
> cannot solve this on upgrade by whacking all user data.

Yes.  Moving from unpartitioned -> partitioned poses an update problem.
To implement a partition update we may be reduced to copying user data
to a USB key during the update cycle.  This is complex and not a good
immediate solution to the NAND fillup problem.