On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 01:28, Roger Barnes wrote: > Hi all, > > 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).
Just a shot in the dark, but I had a similar problem and found it was solved by copying in smaller chunks. I think, in my case, it was filling my /tmp folder as an intermediary when copying and as this was part of my / partition it stopped most operations. As I said, only a shot in the dark. Stay well and happy Heracles -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
