Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 May 1999 10:31:14 +0300 | From | Constantine Gavrilov <> | Subject | Re: RAM disk question |
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Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > > Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 17:50:45 +0300 > From: Constantine Gavrilov <const-g@Orbotech.COM> > > 1) Is it true that one cannot change the default ramdisk size > without changing the source code if ramdisk was compiled as > module? (The ramdisk_size boot parameter does not seem to work > in this case). > > If you load the ram disk as a module, then you have to to change the > default ramdisk size, you need to set the module rd_size. > - Ted
I tried `modprobe rd rd_size=8192' and got:
/lib/modules/2.2.6/block/rd.o: invalid parameter rd_size
You ment changing the value of rd_size in drivers/block/rd.c, did you not? How difficult would it be making it a module parameter? Does not kernel/setup.c, kernel/head.S use this value?
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