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From: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>
To: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: re: RAMFS turned read-only after upgrade to 2.4.19-pre3
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 09:22:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CE28B5B.A9D44029@kegel.com> (raw)

Roy wrote:
> after upgrading from 2.4.19-pre3-ac1 tp 2.4.19-pre8-ac3, 
> RAMFS is suddenly read-only. This is extremely inconvinient ... 
> How can I mend it?

I ran into the same thing.  I only use ramfs as my initial boot
disk; upon boot I pivot root to tmpfs.  Thus in my application,
one workaround was to make the new root directory before creating
the ramdisk image.  Since that was the only write I ever did to
the initial ramdisk, avoiding the write let me boot again.

I have no idea why ramfs went ro.  It is annoying.  I haven't
tracked it down, though, since I was able to work around it.
(I may have to track it down yet, though, since I was thinking
of using ramfs to hold files that I intend to use with sendfile,
since tmpfs and sendfile don't [yet] mix.)
- Dan

             reply	other threads:[~2002-05-15 16:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-15 16:22 Dan Kegel [this message]
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2002-05-15 15:14 RAMFS turned read-only after upgrade to 2.4.19-pre3 Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk

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