[haiku-development] Re: broken build?
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:19:15 +0200 CEST
Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:09 AM, Stefano
> Ceccherini<stefano.ceccherini@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Probably just crash or hang.
> :(
>
> It may not though. Or it can be made to survive to some extent. For
> one thing the virtual memory file has space reserved on disk, and is
> not resized live. I'm not totally sure how many things are writing to
> disk in the background. At least the syslog, which could be stopped
> in
> the worst case of no disk space left. In general the system could
> turn
> itself into a read-only system like a live CD. And of course warn the
> user that disk space is gone or almost gone. Having a configurable
> (on
> or off) warning at a configurable space-left value might also be
> nice.
Actually, writes to disk that need space will fail. But that's about
it. I've often produced this during testing, but never ran into any
problems with it; after all it's not even as bad as a read-only disk,
which Haiku also seems to have no problems to work with (that I
noticed, besides not being able to change the keymap, and stuff like
that).
Bye,
Axel.
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