On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 08:03:19 +0000 (GMT), Tigran Aivazian
<tigran@sco.COM> said:
> If you thought 2.3.28 is perfect here is the list of known (to me) bugs.
> 2. ramdisk is broken (i.e. doesn't work at all - all data returned is
> zeroed). Probably due to some changes in buffer/page caches. I have more
> info on this but it is still not fixed.
The new page cache as used by ext2 and the ramdisk's use of the buffer
cache are incompatible. It's not a massive job to fix it, but the
existing ramdisk model where the ramdisk, not the VM, decides where the
buffers live in memory simply won't work in the new 2.3 age.
--Stephen
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