i do not have any permanant medium, i only have a small flash area, and a lot of ram, i
also do not want to write to the flash !

regards
erez.

Adi Stav wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 01:42:03PM +0200, Erez Doron wrote:
> > I'm trying to create a ram disk which is not erased by reboot,
>
> Won't work, unless you copy all of its contents into a permenant
> medium before shutdown and load it back into RAM when you load up.
> I can't see the point of doing this because you might as well use
> a regular filesystem on disk and have the kernel cache it. That
> should be fast enough for all general purposes.
>
> Alternatively, you can use a regular RAM disk, and have a script
> in /etc/init.d tar it up (or dd it) on shutdown and refill it from
> the saved archive on startup.
>
> > for instance, if i have 512M ram, i want to do mem=500m and use the remaining 12m
> > for ramdisk.
> >
> > I have already written the kernel module for it, but the problem is that when i
> > access the upper 12m with __pa(addr), i get a kernel oops ...
>
> Why can't you just allocate the memory? Must it be the upper 12M?

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