Re: [rfc][patchlet] initrd fix 2.3.39

From: Mike Galbraith (mikeg@weiden.de)
Date: Sun Jan 16 2000 - 22:50:22 EST


On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Frank Bernard wrote:

> Hello Mike,

Hi,

> your patch fixes the main problem, the Oops message. Thanks, that leads me
> some steps further.
>
> But some problems still persist and I will give them a try tomorrow :
> - if you try to copy /dev/initrd to some other file,
> there is the message "No such device", but if you're doing a mknod
> c,1,250 then the special node already exists.

Normal.

> - if you try to make a filesystem on a ramdisk
> (i.e. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram1 bs=1024k count=8; mke2fs /dev/ram1)
> then everything works fine up to the moment when you want to mount
> that ramdisk. It either gives "you must specify the filesystem type"
> without option "-t ext2" or "wrong fs type, ...." with it.
> The length of the ramdisk is exactly 8MB. (wc -l)
> I will track down this point tomorrow a bit further, comparing
> ramdisk-e2fs with file-e2fs of the same size.

Abby-normal. I just checked, and it's not because of my patchlet.
I'll see if I can figure it out.

        -Mike

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