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From: "Roy S.C. Ho" <scho1208@yahoo.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: scho1208@yahoo.com, scho@whizztech.com
Subject: question about kernel 2.4 ramdisk
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 11:01:09 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011204190109.68826.qmail@web21101.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)

Hi, I am using linux kernel 2.4.2 and I have 1 GB ram.
I tried to boot the system with a ramdisk size of
600MB. It was ok when I did "mke2fs" on it, but when I
mounted it, it failed (Magic number mismatch). I tried
this several times and found that all ramdisk sizes
larger than 513MB could cause trouble. Could anyone
please kindly give me some hints? I would like to have
a larger ramdisk (around 800MB).

(note: I tried ramfs but it seems to have memory
leakage when files are deleted and created frequently;
tmpfs is ok, but the pages may be swapped, which is
not desirable in my case...)

Thank you very much!

Regards,
Roy

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             reply	other threads:[~2001-12-04 19:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-04 19:01 Roy S.C. Ho [this message]
2001-12-04 19:47 ` question about kernel 2.4 ramdisk Padraig Brady
2001-12-04 20:14   ` Alan Cox
2001-12-05  7:49     ` Christoph Rohland
2001-12-05  7:56     ` Tachino Nobuhiro
2001-12-05  8:23       ` Christoph Rohland
2001-12-05  8:42         ` Tachino Nobuhiro
2001-12-05 13:51           ` Christoph Rohland
2001-12-06 16:37         ` David Gibson
2001-12-06 16:55           ` Alan Cox
2001-12-08  9:53           ` Christoph Rohland
2001-12-14  5:35             ` David Gibson
2001-12-16 15:34               ` Christoph Rohland
2001-12-17  3:49                 ` David Gibson
2001-12-17  7:55                   ` Christoph Rohland
2001-12-05  9:37   ` Roy S.C. Ho

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