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. -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb Copyright John Summerfield. Reproduction prohibited.