From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Robert M. Stockmann" <stock@stokkie.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ramdisk driver in 2.6.6 has a severe bug
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 17:04:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040517170433.0311c2e9.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0405180132240.21480-100000@hubble.stokkie.net>
"Robert M. Stockmann" <stock@stokkie.net> wrote:
>
> Be aware of other problems when using the linux ramdisk driver,
> loosing its contents. Especially the use of mkinitrd might result in
> unexpected problems. googling for "kernel 2.6.6 ramdisk problem" shows lots
> of people with problems mounting their root filesystems and loading modules
> from ramdisk. Klaus Knopper (knoppix) is not amused, neither am i :)
Well in that case perhaps something else broke. I've seen no such reports
of recent regressions in the ramdisk driver.
The two problems of which I am aware are:
a) It loses its brains across umount. Seems that it's very rare that
anyone actually cares about this, which is why it has not been fixed in
well over a year.
b) It loses data under heavy I/O loads. I _think_ this has been
observed only on ppc64 and might be a cache writeback/invalidate thing.
If there are new post-2.6.5 problems then I'm all ears.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-18 0:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-17 23:02 Robert M. Stockmann
2004-05-17 23:18 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-05-17 23:19 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-17 23:50 ` Robert M. Stockmann
2004-05-18 0:04 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-05-18 0:13 ` Robert M. Stockmann
2004-05-18 0:50 ` viro
2004-05-18 1:03 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-17 23:29 Valdis.Kletnieks
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