Re: File-backed loop devices and "lock ups"

[Phil H <philtickle200@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for your response.

> well, the computer "locks up" ;-)
> it stops working..

Ah-ha - a system freeze! I thought it must've been
something else.

> ..some data might be lost.

Could keep a backup of the file "volume" and hope for
the best I suppose.

> > and nothing has ever 'locked up'.

My file "volumes" have been on a FAT drives,
loop-devices formatted with vfat or ext2, and are
small say <150MB (not 2+ GB), and I have 1GB RAM< I
don't know if that explains or not why there haven't
been system freezes yet.
>
>http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0402.1/1718.html
> 
Thanks for the link.

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