Re: Why is the rewritten ramdisk driver called brd instad of rd

Petr Tesarik
2008-05-27T09:28:19Z

On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 14:05 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Any reason why the rewritten ramdisk driver has a new name? It's for
> all matters an inplace replacement of the old rd driver so it should
> be called rd.c / rd.ko to not confused instaler/developers/etc.

I think it's because the old rd played some dirty tricks with the page
cache, while the reworked one is a straightforward implementation of a
normal _b_lock device -> hence the "b".

No guarantee of correctness.

Petr Tesarik

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