On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Michael Martin wrote:

> I've seen this behaviour, too. I once tried to move a large number of
> mp3 files from one physical drive to another with rsync, and the machine
> locked up, destroyed the reiserfs file systems on both drives, and I
> lost a bunch of files. That's the only time I've had a near catastrophic
> failure in ten years of running linux.
>

That's a different problem (and maybe is why Red Hat didn't include
reiserfs for some time).

My system never locks up, it just behaves like it's starved of RAM.


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