F9 Live USB IO Errors

[Douglas McClendon]

Andrew Overholt wrote:
> * Andrew Overholt <overholt at redhat.com> [2008-05-26 09:54]:
>> I've made some live USB sticks with persistent overlays for a few
>> people.  3 of the people have now told me that they can no longer boot
>> as they get IO errors with what looks like corrupted filesystems.
> 
> 2 of the 3 have now confirmed for me that they hit hard lockups while
> running and had to hard-reboot their machines.  Afterwards, they could
> not re-boot from the USB stick.
> 
> Andrew

Well known nature of the feature.  See a post of mine on fedora-livecd-list

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-livecd-list/2008-May/msg00051.html

I've suggested several times over the last 6 months that this issue be
well documented to set expectations appropriately.

-dmc/jdog