From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Jeff Chua <jchua@fedex.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] initrd >24MB corruption
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 09:23:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020827092316.A13184@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208270758080.15296-100000@boston.corp.fedex.com>; from jchua@fedex.com on Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 08:05:14AM +0800
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 08:05:14AM +0800, Jeff Chua wrote:
> On 26 Aug 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 ... then stuck!
> > Force a 1K block size when you make the fs
>
> That was the default for mke2fs.
>
> Tried compress instead of gzip. Same problem. I guess the compressed file
> is too big for the kernel. The 8MB compressed (from 24MB) didn't work. 6MB
> compressed from 18MB worked. The 24MB filesystem has just one extra junk
> file in /tmp to fill up the filesystem to 90% and this caused the system
> to hang.
>
> I'm thinking it could be the ungzip function in the kernel that's causing
> the problem.
Out of curiosity, how much RAM do you have available?
--
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-27 8:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-26 8:34 Jeff Chua
2002-08-26 9:54 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-27 0:05 ` Jeff Chua
2002-08-27 8:23 ` Russell King [this message]
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