Re: Multi-floppy ramdisk support patch

Aaron Tiensivu (tiensivu@pilot.msu.edu)
Mon, 9 Mar 1998 13:03:25 -0500


> Currently, you can only populate a ramdisk image with whatever you can
> fit (compressed) onto a single floppy. This little patch allows one to
> populate a ramdisk with a filesystem image of any size (given enough RAM)
> by loading off of multiple floppies, as shown below:

This is seriously cool! I really hope it makes it into 2.1
I used to have to play "games" with the kernel to work around that limitation.

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