I hoping I'm not pushing the limits of several new technologies here ... I'm having trouble transferring files from either a usb hard drive or win2k machine via SMB. I'm about to start trying to remove various factors to narrow down on the problem, but was hoping some guru out there might have an idea of what I could try to help track down, if not solve, my problem.
What happens ... using rsync or plain ol' cp, I start copying a fairly large quantity (1000+) of smallish (1-3Mb) files from a usbdrive or smbmounted windows share to an LVM2 partition on an SATA drive, on a linux 2.6.2 kernel machine running Debian Sarge. (told you there were a lot of factors :) ). After a random amount of time and successfully copied files, the tranfer fails, and the system effectively crashes. I can move mouse in X, type in a shell, switch to another tty, but it won't respond to any commands or Ctl-Alt-Del. Hitting the reset switch frequently on an otherwise reasonably stable system is painful (I had another operating system for when I wanted to do that :p).
I realise the story so far is pretty vague, and I hope to diagnose the problem a lot better soon, but thought I'd put it out there for comment. At this stage, I am most suspicious of LVM2, and will test copying to a regular ext3 partition to see if the problem goes away.
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