Re: ram disk (fwd)

Richard Gooch (Richard.Gooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU)
Wed, 15 Jul 1998 16:00:17 +1000

Robert M. Shepard writes:
>
> 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.

Can you provide your boot logs?

> 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.

Can you provide the exact error messages you are getting?

> I am running redhat 4.2 with kernel 2.0.34.

Try kernel 2.1.108 or 2.1.109-pre2. If you're still having problems,
let me know and I'll have a closer look and fix 2.1.10x if it's
broken. I took a quick look at the 2.0.34 code and it looks OK.

Regards,

Richard....

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