On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Jan Kara wrote:
> > With the filesystems/VFS situation looks so (and I'm not going into IWBNI
> > area, only code that needs fixing):
> > ADFS, AFFS, HFS, NTFS, QNX4 - blatantly broken.
> > UFS - needs cleanup/fixes.
> > loopback, ramdisk, raid - more or less broken.
> What's the problem with loopback? Some buffer-cache vs. page-cache issue
> or the out-of-buffer-heads problem?
> I think I might fix it if it's not already done...
>
> Honza.
>
>
This initial ramdisk "initrd" seems to work with the patch submitted
yeaterday, but user-mode ramdisk doesn't retain data and the loop-back
device doesn't write back data to the file that was mounted via
loop.
This means that I can boot the new kernel with an initial ram-disk,
but I can't make a new one when using the new kernel.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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