Re: Linux kernel 2.2.17 appears not support >512M RAM Disk

From: Andreas Dilger (adilger@turbolinux.com)
Date: Wed Sep 20 2000 - 02:28:26 EST


Ryan Tokarek writes:
> On Linux kernel 2.2.17 running on an intel PIII system with 1GB RAM I
> cannot successfully create a ramdisk of greater than 512MB.

It may be that there is a bug, but I would be interested to know what
you are really trying to do. Usually bugs like this exist because
nobody ever tries such things due to reason of sanity... It may be
you are trying to do something which can better be done another way.

Cheers, Andreas

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                 \  would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
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