Al Writes:
> It is quite probably a shell related problem, but something weird is
> definitly going on. Having said that, the problem caused by buffers not
> getting unmapped, which has now been fixed, would have caused major problems
> when copying an installation to harddisk, and very probably would cause the
> system to lock after enough directories had entries added to them.
Bravo!
The patch seems to have done the trick!
With the old kernel, I'd created enough files that eventually it hosed my
file system. I wrote a script to create the proper directories on my hard
disc and copy all the files over off of a root floppy. Indeed, the script
was dying in unpredictable places, although judicious use of "sync"
seemed to help it along.
With the new kernel, it installs without a hitch and I'm in the process of
going back through a removing the unnecessary syncs peppered
throughout it. If I ever get this script to a presentable state, I'll see
about sharing it with others. Shouldn't be that incredibly hard to put
together a little distribution.
Is there any particular reason why the root disk distributed in the
images.zip has all files chown'ed to 500?
-chris
