Hi all, Since the first question about ramdisk, I've done more test against the problem both on kernel 2.2.16 and 2.4.4/2.4.5. Here's my test result: kernel 2.4.4/2.4.5 have two ramdisk bugs. 1. the ramdisk uses two same size mem of buffers and cache, and the cache can NOT be used by other processes untill the ramdisk be unmounted. 2. the ramdisk can dynamically grow as more space is required, but it can NOT dynamically shrink as the space is released. both bugs don't exist on kernel 2.2.16. The test method is as follows:(on a 256M pentium 4 box, with default mamimum ramdisk_size 100M) for bug 1: mke2fs -m0 /dev/ram1; mke2fs -m0 /dev/ram2 mount /dev/ram1 /mnt1; mount /dev/ram2 /mnt2 dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt1/data bs=1k count=96000 #now ram1 is 100M, should have space for another 100M ramdisk, BUT dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt2/data bs=1k count=96000 system hang! for bug 2: mke2fs -m0 /dev/ram1; mke2fs -m0 /dev/ram2 mount /dev/ram1 /mnt1; mount /dev/ram2 /mnt2 dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt1/data bs=1k count=96000 #same as above, but try to free allocated ramdisk buffers first rm /mnt1/data #ram1 should shrink to about zero thus leave space for another 100M #ramdisk, BUT dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt2/data bs=1k count=96000 system still hang! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
