From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Overlay ramdisk on filesystem?
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 23:13:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hdvl7xmj.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <407EF9C4.4070207@techsource.com> (Timothy Miller's message of "Thu, 15 Apr 2004 17:08:20 -0400")
Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com> writes:
> I have a feeling that this may be a bit too off-topic, but I'm doing
> some Linux and hardware performance tests, and some of the tests will
> put the hardware into an unstable state which could get memory errors
> which could cause filesystem corruption.
In the presence of memory errors, all bets are off anyway.
> I would like to know how I could overlay a RAM disk over a read-only
> filesystem so that all new files and modified files end up in the RAM
> disk, but old files are read from the disk. This way, when I reboot,
> the disk reverts back.
You might have to tweak the underlying file system, too. IIRC, ext2
avoids to reallocate freshly deallocated blocks, to prevent
fragmentation. This will waste a lot of RAM on the long run.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-15 21:08 Overlay ramdisk on filesystem? Timothy Miller
2004-04-15 21:13 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2004-04-16 19:38 ` Erik Tews
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