Re: support of older compilers
From: Grzegorz Kulewski
Date: Fri Nov 05 2004 - 17:01:31 EST
The kernel does do more these days than it did in '95. But 6 times more? I
dunno..
Can't we remove ramfs for a good start? Everyone should use tmpfs instead
and some stupid distributions (I will not tell their names) try to mount
ramfs on /dev (udev) and that leads to very stupid panic if you will
write for example:
dd if=/dev/evms/sda5 of=/dev/sda17 bs=1024
instead of "of=/dev/evms/sda17".
Explanation (if anybody needs one):
Kernel can't create more partition devices than 15 for SCSI and SATA disks
because of lack of minor numbers. So I am using evms to create these
devices. So I should use /dev/evms/sda* for these partitions. And if I
will not remember to do so then I will get oom panic very shortly because
ramfs is not limited (in contrary to tmpfs).
And this kind of stupid mistake can happen. It happened to me 3 times in a
row before I started to debug what is wrong with this kernel.
[BTW. Does somebody know how to tell the kernel that I do not want
/dev/sda[0-9]* files (but I do want /dev/hda files) created == I do not
want kernel partition driver to touch this particular device?]
And using ramfs for anything else can easily lead to similar problems. So
I think we do not need ramfs. Am I wrong? [I understand that removing it
will not remove much code.]
Thanks,
Grzegorz Kulewski
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