> I heard it is due to the fact that ext2fs server works by > mapping the entire ext2 partition to its virtual memory which is limited however. Correct. On x86 a task's address space is 32 bits, i.e. 4GB. Among other bits, libraries, code etc must be mapped in. The largest continuous chunk that remains is around 1 GB. -Neal -- Neal H Walfield University of Massachusetts at Lowell neal@walfield.org or neal@cs.uml.edu