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SubjectRe: [patch-2.3.50-pre2] bdget() needs to be exported
On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> Instead of exporting bdget(), I opted to keep the ramdisk's private
> problem internal to that driver as in patch below. Thoughts?

The main thought is that the driver is broken at the moment, irrespective
of your latest change. Namely:

a) dd a filesystem image (I used 2.88M ext2 LILO floppy but anything
should do) to /dev/rd/0 and mount it.

b) edit some text file on it

c) umount /dev/rd/0

d) dd /dev/rd/0 to a disk file say boot2.img

e) dd /dev/zero to /dev/rd/0

f) dd boot2.img to /dev/rd/0 and mount it. Behold, the text file you
edited is full of zeroes.

The kernel is 2.3.50-SMP + your patch. No rmmod/insmod-ing of rd was done
at any time, i.e. it was only loaded once by:

insmod rd rd_size=2880 rd_blocksize=1024

Please let me know what info you need to assist you with fixing this
problem.

Regards,
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Tigran A. Aivazian | http://www.sco.com
Escalations Research Group | tel: +44-(0)1923-813796
Santa Cruz Operation Ltd | http://www.ocston.org/~tigran



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