For review: NAND out of space patch.

[Erik Garrison]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 02:38:22PM +0200, Morgan Collett wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 04:21, Chris Ball <cjb at laptop.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Here's a small Python script that acts as a final fail-safe in the event
> > that the datastore is full and we can't boot because of it, by deleting
> > datastore files largest-first until we cross a threshold of how much
> > free space is "enough".  It could be incorporated into the Python init
> > process.  (See #7591 for more detail.)
> 
> 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!)

from #olpc-ayuda:
Betus is a contractor involved in laptop distribution in Uruguay, and
seemed confident that activity download was at fault.

13:09 < erikg> Betus: he oido que en uy muchos estudiantes han llenado
el flash de sus xo's
13:10 < erikg> sabes como o con que tipo de datos?
13:10 < Betus> con las actividades
13:10 < Betus> y eso a hecho que se bloqueen

*translation*

13:09 < erikg> Betus: i've heard that in uy a lot of students have
filled the flash of their xo's
13:10 < erikg> do you know how or with what kind of data?
13:10 < Betus> with the activities
13:10 < Betus> and this is in fact what has blocked them