[Yum] yum needs a --ignoresize option

Konstantin Ryabitsev icon at linux.duke.edu
Mon May 23 18:11:49 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 13:19 -0400, Joshua Jensen wrote:
> 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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Konstantin ("Icon") Ryabitsev
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