[Linux-NTFS-User] Copying From NTFS Mount & oom-killer

[<mar...@es...>]

Hi,

When copying large amounts of data (> 25GB) from an NTFS mount, my kernel
panics.

escabot log # uname -a
Linux escabot 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 #3 SMP PREEMPT Thu Sep 13 14:44:12 EDT 2007
i686 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 280 AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

I watch top while copying the files and it just sucks up all of the
memory. It gets to a point for a while where it seems to copy fine leaving
just a few megabytes of memory free. If I copy smaller sets of data, it
seems to work fine (but still sucks all the memory it can). This machine
has 12GB of memory.

I have tried several times and I can pretty much get it to always dump if
I copy enough stuff over. The last time I recompiled the kernel with NTFS
debug support and enabled the debugging messages. I am attaching a gzip'd
file of the kernel messages.

If attaching a file and sending it to the mailing list is improper
etiquette, let me know and I can post it on a web page or do something
else.

I'm not sure if this is a bug or something I'm doing wrong.

Thank you for your time.


--Marc