>> On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>> > The way I see it, the ramdisk used to work by making it's data persistent
>> > in the buffer cache. Today, data doesn't live in the buffer cache, it
>> > lives in the page cache. Ergo, the task at hand is to figure out how
>> > to make data in the page cache persistent rather than copying that data
>> > back and forth.
>>
>> Another view of the situation may be - ramdisk used to be static but then
>> started to rely on buffer cache. Now it can no longer rely on buffer
>> cache. Therefore, shouldn't it go back to being static?
> I did that before trying anything else.. took it out of buffer cache
> all together and used vmalloc instead. Made for a pretty slow ramdisk.
Can you send me that version ? For initrd speed is not an issue: it'll just
need to work somehow. Slow is Ok for initrd...
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