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. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
