NAND out of space crash

[Erik Garrison]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 02:35:28PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Erik Garrison <erik at laptop.org> wrote:
> >>  b) sugar should, ideally, start even if flash is full.   It is
> >> currently failing when writing to ~olpc/.boot_time or some such, and
> >> crashing.
> >
> > In olpc-utils: usr/bin/olpc-session.  This was done for performance
> > testing work, and I am unaware of other references to the file.  We can
> > either comment out this stanza or remove it.  I have attached patches to
> > do either.
> 
> Erik, would you mind claiming #7586 and/or #7587?  

Sure.

> I don't think we need to remove the boot time code; we just need to
> make sure that the shell script doesn't exit if it fails.

I didn't understand the failure mode because I haven't set up a system.

A few days ago you were getting a system into a NAND-full state.  What
method did you find worked best (cat /dev/urandom >...) ?

Erik