Re: tmpfs: a way to get your system down

From: Christoph Rohland (cr@sap.com)
Date: Tue Mar 27 2001 - 08:10:09 EST

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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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