Bruce Elliot's fix is on my page:
http://www.ocston.org/~tigran/patches/other/bde-ramdisk-2.3.29-p1.patch
Regards,
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On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Khimenko Victor wrote:
> In <Pine.Linu.4.10.9911251630490.389-100000@mikeg.weiden.de> Mike Galbraith (mikeg@weiden.de) wrote:
> > On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
>
> >> 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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