Re: ramdisk driver in 2.6.6 has a severe bug

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon May 17 2004 - 18:17:56 EST


"Robert M. Stockmann" <stock@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> So basicly i copied all my files from rootmdk92 to the new rootmdk100 ramdisk.
> But after copying them and umounting the old ramdisk (rootmdk92) en deleting
> /dev/loop0 , /dev/loop1 (which is /tmp/rootmdk100) loses all its contents.

ramdisks currently lose contents across umount. I'm planning on getting it fixed
by 2.6.7.
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