ram disk (fwd)

Robert M. Shepard (bob@rmshep.mt.net)
Tue, 14 Jul 1998 22:01:40 -0600 (MDT)

I have a small (10 MB) database that rarely changes and i would like to
place this entirely in ram for performance purposes.

I cannot seem to get the ram driver to make a ramdisk greater than
4096. Reading through the docs in Documentation/ramdisk.txt indicates I
should be able to do this with ramdisk_size=13288 (4096x3). this is
either a boot prompt or a lilo append option.

but neither case seems to work. I get fs erros (eg block device is
4096 but filesystem says 13288, and then access error messages for
seeking past the 4096 mark.

Could someone explain what I am doing wrong.

I am running redhat 4.2 with kernel 2.0.34.

thanks

bob shepard

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