Re: ramdisk usage/errors ??

[joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl (joost witteveen)]

Could you please fix you mailer? When I reply, I don't see
any text of your message.

> I'm sorry to bother you but I need to ask some questions pertaining to
> Linux ramdisk support.
> 
[..]
> 
> Oct 17 01:18:26 Kernel: end_request:I/O error,dev 01:01, sector 16890  
> 		 ...                 ...                          16892
> 			 ...                                      16894
> 
[..]
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram bs=1k
> mke2fs -vm0 /dev/ram 16384
> mount -t ext2 /dev/ram /usr/local/squid/ramdisk

The docs say to do somethign like

  dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram bs=1k count=16384

Does that make any difference?
(Or, does reducing the size of the ramdisk fix your problems?)

-- 
joost witteveen, joostje@debian.org
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