From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
To: mhteas@btech.com (Malcolm H. Teas)
Cc: alan@redhat.com (Alan Cox), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (linux-kernel)
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ramdisk ioctl bug fix, kernel 2.4.14
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 11:56:32 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200111131656.fADGuWn06695@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BF12860.1050302@btech.com> from "Malcolm H. Teas" at Nov 13, 2001 08:04:16 AM
> Most disk devices can't change their size with a few commands as a ram disk can
> as it's a physical constant. Ram disks are virtual so their size is whatever
> the user specifies, with a kernel configured upper limit. I argue that the size
> is the allocated amount, not the upper limit.
I think your problem is that you are querying the disk to ask it the file
system size ? If so you asked the wrong code
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-13 16:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-13 2:39 Malcolm H. Teas
2001-11-13 9:16 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-13 14:04 ` Malcolm H. Teas
2001-11-13 16:56 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-11-13 20:15 ` Malcolm H. Teas
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