[ale] Hard time with ram disks

[Vaidhy Mayilrangam]

The default ramdisk size is 4MB.. you can create larger ramdisks by specifying
ramdisk_size=N where N is in K.. it will create ramdisk for that size. 

I do not think you need to change the kernel at all.

Vaidhy

On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 05:22:23PM -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> I'm sending this email out but I believe I'm having problem with neomail
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> I currently using a 2.4.10 kernel with 16mb ramdisks enabled.  I'm loading
> only 4mb ramdisks.  I can get
> one full filesystem loaded to /dev/ram7 but almost all the way through
> loading /usr to /dev/ram6 I get an out of bounds error on write.  Should  I
> configure the size of the ramdisk to only 4mb each?  should I change
> kernels?
> 
> I upgraded from 2.4.2 because it appeared the kernel did not respect my us
> of ramdisks it would overwrite them at any chance.  It usually protected /
> but would destroy /usr
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
> 
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