[Bugs] #1798 NORM: overlay corruption (was: Lost communication with USB SoaS during session; Can't restart)

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#1798: overlay corruption
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    Reporter:  David Kergyl  |          Owner:  sdz                        
        Type:  defect        |         Status:  new                        
    Priority:  Normal        |      Milestone:  Unspecified by Release Team
   Component:  SoaS          |        Version:  Unspecified                
    Severity:  Critical      |       Keywords:                             
Distribution:  SoaS          |   Status_field:  Unconfirmed                
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Changes (by sascha_silbe):

  * severity:  Blocker => Critical
  * component:  sugar => SoaS
  * owner:  tomeu => sdz
  * version:  0.86.x => Unspecified
  * keywords:  Lost communication USB SoaS Boot failed remove fb =>
  * distribution:  Fedora => SoaS


Comment:

 Reassigning to SoaS.
 This sounds like the usual "overlay corruption after running out of disk
 space" problem that's caused by using a DM/LVM snapshot for the overlay.

 FWIW the Debian counterparts use aufs for the overlay and don't suffer
 from this issue (kudos to alexanderpirdy for researching that).

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Ticket URL: <http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1798#comment:1>
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