From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266257AbUGJO0t (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jul 2004 10:26:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266258AbUGJO0t (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jul 2004 10:26:49 -0400 Received: from web20827.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.227.166]:50778 "HELO web20827.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S266257AbUGJO0s (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jul 2004 10:26:48 -0400 Message-ID: <20040710142647.73810.qmail@web20827.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 07:26:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Fawad Lateef Subject: Re: Re: Need help in creating 8GB RAMDISK To: ebiederm@xmission.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) writes: > > What do you need this for? > > Mostly it looks like you just need to use kmap, > but... > As other have pointed out ramfs is usually the > better solution, > and you don't need to code anything. > > Or are you trying to use an 7GB initrd. An > interesting idea > but that would take a little bootloader hacking to > make work. Actually I need 7GB RAMDISK to use with my Caching Drive Project. I have to use RAMDISK of 7GB or more for the Caching purpose. The Architecture is like Disk Caching Disk (DCD), but here I hav to use RAMDISK. I created RAMDISK using physical address as I hav reserved all RAM above 1GB for my RAMDISK, but I am not able to create RAMDISK of 7GB as a single Drive. Is there any Idea regarding this ???? Fawad Lateef __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail