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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] ramdisk blocksize Kconfig entry
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:19:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44B415FE.1010700@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060711171722.E1710004@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com>

Nathan Scott wrote:
> This patch makes the ramdisk blocksize configurable at kernel
> compilation time rather than only at boot or module load time,
> like a couple of the other ramdisk options.  I found this handy
> awhile back but thought little of it, until recently asked by a
> few of the testing folks here to be able to do the same thing
> for their automated test setups.
> 
> The Kconfig comment is largely lifted from comments in rd.c,
> and hopefully this will increase the chances of making folks
> aware that the default value often isn't a great choice here
> (for increasing values of PAGE_SIZE, even moreso).

This seems a bit odd to me... the sizes of most block devices is set by 
the filesystem, not hard-coded; the need for this implies something more 
fundamental is wrong.

	-hpa



  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-11 21:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-11  7:17 [patch] ramdisk blocksize Kconfig entry Nathan Scott
2006-07-11 21:19 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-07-11 23:04   ` Nathan Scott

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