Bug#290398: Additional information on oom_killer debacle
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.
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Matt Taggart
taggart@debian.org
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