Re: [PATCH] Introduce dom0-min-space configuration option

[Michal Novotny <minovotn@redhat.com>]

On 07/26/2010 02:23 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 07/26/2010 01:48 PM, Michal Novotny wrote:
>>>
>> Well, the root cause is insufficient disk space since without
>> insufficient disk space issue we won't be running into those issues. In
>> fact there are 2 points of view on this one:
>>
>>   1) implement a check for enough disk space (this is what I did)
>>   2) implement the proper error message saying there is not enough space
>> to extract it (ENOSPC) - this is what you and Ian suggest
>>
>> I am not telling any of those options is bad, nevertheless it's based
>> just on the point of view. So, is option 2 better  and worth
>> implementing rather than limiting the domain run only to case with
>> enough space on dom0?
>
> Yes, definitely.
>
> Option 1 wouldn't work, initrd and kernel files have all sort of sizes.
>
> Paolo
Ok, this way it makes sense, however when setting dom0-min-space to 100 
(MiB) there's no such kernel/initrd that big but I'm not saying this is 
bad. Somewhat better error reporting will be the right way to go after all.

Michal

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Michal Novotny<minovotn@redhat.com>, RHCE
Virtualization Team (xen userspace), Red Hat