Re: tmpfs: a way to get your system down

2001-03-27 Thread Christoph Rohland

Hi Alex,

On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Alex Riesen wrote:
> just hit by tmpfs on 2.4.2-ac20
> 
> mount -t tmpfs mnt
> dd if=/dev/zero mnt/tmpfile
> 
> resulted in hardly slowed system and lockup,
> and not in "No space left on device", as expected.

Use mount option "size". The default is unlimited...

Greetings
Christoph


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Re: tmpfs: a way to get your system down

2001-03-27 Thread Christoph Rohland

Hi Alex,

On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Alex Riesen wrote:
 just hit by tmpfs on 2.4.2-ac20
 
 mount -t tmpfs mnt
 dd if=/dev/zero mnt/tmpfile
 
 resulted in hardly slowed system and lockup,
 and not in "No space left on device", as expected.

Use mount option "size". The default is unlimited...

Greetings
Christoph


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tmpfs: a way to get your system down

2001-03-24 Thread Alex Riesen

Hi, all,

just hit by tmpfs on 2.4.2-ac20

mount -t tmpfs mnt
dd if=/dev/zero mnt/tmpfile

resulted in hardly slowed system and lockup,
and not in "No space left on device", as expected.

Alex Riesen

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tmpfs: a way to get your system down

2001-03-24 Thread Alex Riesen

Hi, all,

just hit by tmpfs on 2.4.2-ac20

mount -t tmpfs mnt
dd if=/dev/zero mnt/tmpfile

resulted in hardly slowed system and lockup,
and not in "No space left on device", as expected.

Alex Riesen

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