For review: NAND out of space patch.

[Eben Eliason]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:

> On 22 Jul 2008, at 13:38, Morgan Collett wrote:
>
> > Another approach of which I vaguely remember discussion, is be
> > deleting activities instead of data. (Except for Browse, and
> > Terminal... so you can possibly get them back again!)
> >
> > There would then be a symptom which they would hopefully notice before
> > hitting the unbootable state, so they would know what caused it and
> > hopefully avoid it.
>
>
> I'm not sure how much space is needed, but eToys has 3.18Mb mpg movie
> sitting there as part of a demo file, not sure why it needs to be
> quite so large:
>
>        usr/share/etoys/ExampleEtoys/ParticleDyeInWater.mpg
>
> Anyway, I _really_ dislike the idea of intended file loss, though as
> was pointed out it's better than a kid losing all their data. Is it
> possible to trigger a script that asks for a USB stick to be inserted
> and then move items over there?


Well, we're operating under the basic assumption that backup support is
going to be available at many of the schools.  Obviously this won't be
available in some schools, and certainly won't be for G1G1 or developers,
but hopefully we can find some solution in the future which makes things
easier for everyone.

- Eben
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