On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Frank Bernard wrote:
> Hello Mike,
Hi,
> your patch fixes the main problem, the Oops message. Thanks, that leads me
> some steps further.
>
> But some problems still persist and I will give them a try tomorrow :
> - if you try to copy /dev/initrd to some other file,
> there is the message "No such device", but if you're doing a mknod
> c,1,250 then the special node already exists.
Normal.
> - if you try to make a filesystem on a ramdisk
> (i.e. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram1 bs=1024k count=8; mke2fs /dev/ram1)
> then everything works fine up to the moment when you want to mount
> that ramdisk. It either gives "you must specify the filesystem type"
> without option "-t ext2" or "wrong fs type, ...." with it.
> The length of the ramdisk is exactly 8MB. (wc -l)
> I will track down this point tomorrow a bit further, comparing
> ramdisk-e2fs with file-e2fs of the same size.
Abby-normal. I just checked, and it's not because of my patchlet.
I'll see if I can figure it out.
-Mike
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