tmpfs: a way to get your system down

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* tmpfs: a way to get your system down
@ 2001-03-24 17:29 Alex Riesen
  2001-03-27 13:10 ` Christoph Rohland
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Alex Riesen @ 2001-03-24 17:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

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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* Re: tmpfs: a way to get your system down
  2001-03-24 17:29 tmpfs: a way to get your system down Alex Riesen
@ 2001-03-27 13:10 ` Christoph Rohland
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Christoph Rohland @ 2001-03-27 13:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Alex Riesen; +Cc: linux-kernel

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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