Messages in this thread |  | | From | Rafal Maszkowski <> | Subject | unprecise report: lockups when using loopback | Date | Wed, 19 Jun 1996 22:02:29 +0200 (MET DST) |
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It won't be a precise report but I couln't spend more time on finding what exactly is wrong.
I tried to use yard-1.4 (tool for creating safety floppies - it (1) mounts a filesystem, populates it with most important binaries, (2) checks it, (3) compresses and writes kernel and compressed fs to one floppy) with loopback (instead of normal RAM disk). It locked up my machine few times. I got two more less immediate lockups in 3rd stage (write_rescue_disk.pl). Recently also in the firts stage (creat_root_fs.pl) - it stopped while writing, my ls on the mounted loopback fs was stopped in 'D' state; the system was running normally for some time and then, after few minutes it locked, i.e. I could only switch consoles, nothing else. I'm suspecting that even just writing to loopback mounted fs is causing these strange efects.
The OS is 2.0.0 of course, i586 60 MHz, 16 MB RAM, NE2000-like PCI, SMC Ultra, NCR53c815 PCI, MICROP 2217-15MQ1001901 1.7 GB, Cyclom-Y/ISA 8 port, buggy RZ1000 interface: not enabled.
R. -- Rafal Maszkowski rzm@torun.pdi.net http://www.torun.pdi.net/~rzm Opinia publiczna powinna byc zaalarmowana swoim nieistnieniem - St. J. Lec
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