> Requiring such a large amount of memory to create a filesystem seems
> unnecessary. Is there a particular reason the mkfs.ext2 program has
> to write everything into memory before dumping it to disk? (I'm
> guessing this is not really a kernel problem/limitation).
It's a kernel bug.
-ben
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