problem with VMware -XFS guilty one - was: Re: XFS is innocent

[Olaf Fr±czyk <olaf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2002.01.10 19:42:01 +0100 Steve Lord wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 11:30, Olaf Fr±czyk wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have installed clean RH7.2 on one free partition on my machine.
> Removed
> > RH gcc, installed compat-egcs, compiled new kernel (2.4.17) with xfs
> > (using the same sources as previous) and ... no problems.
> > So I moved kernel, modules to my working system, and ... it works.
> > So something with my system is wrong, and the problems are not XFS
> related.
> > Now, I have to find what :((
Hi,

Found what's wrong (in my case):
if on /tmp partition I have XFS filesystem then VMware crashes
if on /tmp is ext2 then everything is OK

The only thing VMware does on it, is to place /tmp/ram0 file (found it in 
vmware.log).
But it does _not_ appear in ls output, nor in mc (midnight commander).
And I suppose, that if I have low memory, it puts them part of guest OS 
memory.
I think so, because the less memory I have, then I have crashes earlier.

I use VMware 3.0.0 build 1455.

Regards,

Olaf