On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Andrew Hoying wrote:
> Hello,
>
> While going though the busybox options, I saw that you could turn on Minix
> version 2 file system support. I checked and Oxygen currently is using
> version one, and I'd guess the other distributions are as well. Is there any
> advantages to going to a version 2 Minix file system?
>
> I have no idea what the difference between the two versions are, and I
> couldn't find anything with a few internet searches.
>
> The main reason I'm curious is that I'm wondering if it would help my RAM
> disk problem. The problem I'm having is my var/log RAM disk keeps losing
> storage space. In other words, even though I only have 500KB of files in
> there, it reports having 3MB. When I delete everything, it still reports
> having 2.5 MB in df in use. It keeps getting worse until, after about 3
> weeks, there is no room in var/log at all. The only way to fix this is to
> reformat the partition, or reboot the firewall.
I have read that ramfs was designed to alleviate some problems with the
ramdisk driver. I think the difference was that /dev/ram* grows up to the
maximum size allocated, as the filesystem driver requests. However, disk
space is not returned. The initially small size of the ramdisk is
unfortunately misleading, since all ramdisks really have to be the same
size.
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