> Hi,
>
> It seems to me the ramdisk of the new kernels(e.g. 2.3.33) doesn't hold
> data at all. After I made a file system on a ramdisk with
>
> mke2fs -i 8192 /dev/ram0 1024
>
> I can do :
>
> root[17:49:54]~#mount /dev/ram0 /mnt
> root[17:50:03]~#echo Hello! > /mnt/t
> root[17:50:14]~#cat /mnt/t
> Hello!
>
> which is fine. But if i unmount it and remount if right away, i get
>
> root[17:50:19]~#umount /mnt
> root[17:50:27]~#mount /dev/ram0 /mnt
> root[17:50:31]~#cat /mnt/t
> root[17:50:34]~#
>
> The file is still there, just the contents are all zerod.
>
> Am i missing something here?
>
Same problem with the loop device. Maybe there is a connection?
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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