Hang when using loop device

Hello all, Recently my ext2 partition out of space so I have made a regular file in the FAT32 partition and format it as ext2 partiton and mount it as loop device.However,occasionaly when I extract a large tar to the loop device.. The computer will hang while extracting. I wonder if dea

problem using ppp on serial modem for kernel 2.4.x

Hello all, Recently I try to upgrade kernel 2.2.x to 2.4.x (the problem occur both for 2.4.0 and 2.4.1). When I use kernel 2.2.x before and use the serial modem to connect internet and telnet to some Chinese bbs ( in which 8-bit character is used,e.g bbs.e-fever.org ,bbs.org.hk ,it wor