[REPOST3][BUG] RAMFS broken RDONLY in 2.4.19-pre7(-ac2)?

From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (roy@karlsbakk.net)
Date: Wed Apr 24 2002 - 08:09:00 EST


On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> > Too much mess.
> >
> > Of course, the /proc/devices was from my computer, compiled without proper
> > ramfs support. I don't have /proc/devices from the other one, as I can't
> > boot it, lacking RAMFS support.
>
> actually, even more mess than you think, namely what you keep calling
> RAMFS (and ramfs) has nothing to do with ramfs. The ramfs is not needed to
> use ramdisk block devices. See CONFIG_RAMFS for more info.
>
> Btw, there is also tmpfs but that has nothing to do with it either :)
>

ok - false alarm. My specified size wasn't supported. After trying with
32768 it worked.

But - the client couldn't write to / !!!

Is this correct?

-- 
Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, Datavaktmester

Computers are like air conditioners. They stop working when you open Windows.

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