[Yum] yum needs a --ignoresize option

Joshua Jensen joshua at iwsp.com
Mon May 23 17:19:08 UTC 2005


https://devel.linux.duke.edu/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=459

On environments with tons of NFS mounts, something that Linux is doing
more and more, some of those mounts might be hung.  rpm itself fails to
install packages on such systems, as it can't get passed the stat that
it tries to perform on each mounted filesystem.  rpm's "--ignoresize"
argument is a life saver in these cases, as it skips the stat.  I'd
rather risk a filesystem being full for an rpm install/upgrade than have
a hung rpm/yum process and open rpm database.

Can yum get this option too?  I'm thinking it should be a command-line
option, and a configurable options in yum.conf

Thoughts?


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Joshua Jensen
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