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From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: Alex Riesen <vmagic@users.sourceforge.net>
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Subject: Re: tmpfs: a way to get your system down
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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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