Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Dec 1999 10:20:08 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: Ok, making ready for pre-2.4 and code-freeze.. |
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On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Jan Kara wrote:
> > With the filesystems/VFS situation looks so (and I'm not going into IWBNI > > area, only code that needs fixing): > > ADFS, AFFS, HFS, NTFS, QNX4 - blatantly broken. > > UFS - needs cleanup/fixes. > > loopback, ramdisk, raid - more or less broken. > What's the problem with loopback? Some buffer-cache vs. page-cache issue > or the out-of-buffer-heads problem? > I think I might fix it if it's not already done... > > Honza. > >
This initial ramdisk "initrd" seems to work with the patch submitted yeaterday, but user-mode ramdisk doesn't retain data and the loop-back device doesn't write back data to the file that was mounted via loop.
This means that I can boot the new kernel with an initial ram-disk, but I can't make a new one when using the new kernel.
Cheers, Dick Johnson
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