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From: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce dom0-min-space configuration option
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:00:17 +0100
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Michal Novotny writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Introduce dom0-min-space configuration option"):
> Well, there's no other way to fix it than to implement a check for 
> enough space on dom0 for extracting vmlinuz and initrd files from the 
> image file. If it's partially extracted it's understandable that the 
> data are not valid input for zStream processing and therefore it runs 
> into Z_BUF_ERROR (-5) during the process.

No, it is not understandable that the system should continue to try to
execute a partially-extracted kernel.  This needs to be fixed.

> Why do you think my patch is entirely wrong?

Because you are treating the symptoms but not addressing the cause.

Ian.