Re: initrd broken (was Re: 2.3.9+ and initrd)

Bradley D. LaRonde (brad@ltc.com)
Wed, 11 Aug 1999 21:59:59 -0400

From: Werner Almesberger <almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch>
> Bradley D. LaRonde wrote:
> > What happened back then that broke the the filesystems?
>
> The introduction of the page cache broke RAM disks, which of course
> also broke initrd. With a little luck, initrd should start to work
> again automagically once RAM disks are fixed. (I'm not quite sure
> what the status is there.)

Thanks for the info.

How did the page cache break things? I'm asking because I am willing to
work on getting RAM disks working again, but I would like to know where to
start.

Regards,
Brad

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