On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, William Burrow wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Mar 1997, Joshua Spoerri wrote:
>
> > tar czf /dev.tgz -C /dev .
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram bs=1k count=32; sync
> > mke2fs /dev/ram; sync
> > mount -t ext2 /dev/ram /dev
> ^^^^
> > tar xzf /dev.tgz -C /dev
> >
> > quickly causes a kernel panic. why?
> > (it is very useful for readonly /.)
>
> Why are you mounting the ramdisk on your /dev/ directory?? This might in
> itself cause problems. Linux doesn't seem to mind too much using a
> directory with files in it as a mount point, however I have always
> understood that Unix tends to like an empty directory.
>
>
> Using devices on a ramdisk works very well (to 2.0.29 anyway), I use them
> every day. One problem I found is that sometimes mke2fs messes up when
> creating the filesystem. I didn't quite follow up on this, I'm not sure
> if it not a hardware problem. Specify the number of blocks to mke2fs, eg:
>
> mke2fs /dev/ram 32
>
> --
> William Burrow -- Fredericton Area Network, New Brunswick, Canada
> Copyright 1997 William Burrow
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