Matthew Kirk wrote: > About a year ago a gent named Brandon posted a note to this list stating > that, with kernel 2.6.9, when he created a very large ram disk using ext2 or > reiserfs and filled it up his system hung. Here's his note... > http://lists.linuxcoding.com/rhl/2005/msg58000.html > > The recommendation was to switch to using tmpfs. > > I'm having the same problem. I'm using 2.6.12.3, and I'm attempting to > mount a 2 GB ram disk. As recommended in the original note series, tmpfs > does work, where ext2 and reiserfs don't, but I'm not sure it's actually > what we want, and I'd like to understand a bit more about why tmpfs works > (and haven't been able to find explanations). I suppose switching to x86-64 isn't an option? It sounds very much as though you're running into 32 bit limits. As has been said, a post to the LKML might help, as would a check that a newer kernel has the same problems. James. -- E-mail: james@ | Practically any car advert, for example, shows you that aprilcottage.co.uk | if you buy this car you will get so lost that you end up | parked (well, no. The word here is "stuck") on a mountain | in Monument Valley. -- Telsa Gwynne -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
