Bug#290398: Additional information on oom_killer debacle

[Alex Fernandez <alejandrofer@gmail.com>]

You are completely right, Matt; sorry for the trouble caused. I
realized yesterday, after sending the report, that I was doing
something terribly wrong :(

Anyway, thanks for the prompt response. It's always reassuring to see
that response is so great in Debian support :)

Alex.

On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 11:40:31 -0800, Matt Taggart <taggart@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> Matt Taggart writes...
> 
> >
> > Alex Fernandez writes...
> >
> > > USB memory stick was mounted as "ramfs", since vfat was not working.
> > > Relevant line from /etc/fstab:
> > > /dev/sda        /mnt/usbkey     ramfs   rw,user,noauto  0       0
> >
> > That's your problem then. ramfs is, like the name suggests, a filesystem that
> > resides in memory. mount will ignore the /dev/sda you specified and just
> > create a ramfs instance at /mnt/usbkey. Try umounting it and remounting it an
> > d
> > you'll see that the contents disappear. If you specify ramfs without any
> > options the default behavior is to create a ramfs with a maximum size of one
> > half of physical memory.
> 
> Oops, I think I'm confusing ramfs with tmpfs here but the problem is still
> similar, you're using ram and not the flash device.
> 
> --
> Matt Taggart
> taggart@debian.org
> 
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