For review: NAND out of space patch.

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Erik Garrison <erik at laptop.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 01:58:29PM -0400, pgf at laptop.org wrote:
>> jim wrote:
>>  > Ah, I like this idea better than the previous I've heard; if we can
>>  > uninstall software or cleanup the journal with human intervention, that
>>  > would be good....  I'm nervous about automatic cleanup schemes....
>>
>> i agree that erik's proposal sounds attractive, since we'd have
>> most or all of the "real" UI available to assist in presenting
>> the user's choices.  but even if this scheme doesn't pan out,
>> i still think we could do something interesting by inserting a
>> hook (via a patch) into .xsession which lets us run something
>> non-sugary (but still interactive) prior to full startup.
>
> Right.  The recovery-mode ui can be anything.
>
> I'm going to work on the unionfs side of things.  Is there anyone
> available to work on the recovery-mode ui interface?

I can give some indications, shouldn't be hard if we reuse the existing code.

Could work directly on it if other people took care of my blockers ;)

Thanks for the good idea,

Tomeu