Hi! Trying to copy 1Gig of files onto loop device was not good idea: it deadlocked on me. ps -auxl: 100 0 87 65 9 0 872 464 c0134e95 D 2 0:01 cp -a 22007.pdf and 0 0 90 71 9 0 772 356 c01253ad D 8 0:00 sync System.map: c0134e10 T wakeup_bdflush c0134eb0 t flush_dirty_buffers c0134f90 t sync_old_buffers c0125150 T lock_page c0125180 T __find_get_page c01252b0 T __find_lock_page c01253e0 t drop_behind c01254f0 t generic_file_readahead Pavel -- I'm [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/