Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 04 Jul 2004 10:22:48 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Need help in creating 8GB RAMDISK |
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Fawad Lateef wrote: > Hello > > I am creating a RAMDISK of 7GB (from 1GB to 8GB). I > reserved the RAM by changing the code in > arch/i386/mm/init.c ..........
On i386 I'm not surprised this ties at 4G. It's probably too much trouble to make part of the ramdisk highmem, and part not.
> Can any one tell me the reason behind this ??? I think > that in a single module we can't access more than 4GB > RAM ...... If this is the reason then what to do ??? I > need 7GB RAMDISK as a single drive ....
Just use ramfs. Then you don't waste the overhead of putting a filesystem on top of the ramdisk.
Jeff
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