ramdisk usage/errors ??

["Richard S. Gray" <sgray@preferred.com>]

Hi,

I'm sorry to bother you but I need to ask some questions pertaining to
Linux ramdisk support. Most of the information I've found concerns
installation/boot floppy usage but I have a different purpose in mind.
I'm using the Squid Proxy server which generates several log files:
access.log, cache.log, etc. The idea is to have Squid maintain these
log files on a ramdisk that has been formatted (ext2fs), and mounted
in appropriate location. I'm able to format and mount the ramdisk.
Initially, Squid happily maintains the log files on the before mentioned
ramdisk. However, during periods in which the proxy server is
experiencing heavy usage the kernel is generating error messages such
as:

Oct 17 01:18:26 Kernel: end_request:I/O error,dev 01:01, sector 16890  
               ...                 ...                          16892
                       ...                                      16894

I would appreciate any help or advice. I've listed the commands that 
I placed within rc.local to format and mount the ramdisk at system 
boot.

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram bs=1k
mke2fs -vm0 /dev/ram 16384
mount -t ext2 /dev/ram /usr/local/squid/ramdisk

I'm currently running:

    Kernel version: 2.1.30 pre3

Thanks,
Scott Gray