Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:19:58 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [patch] ramdisk blocksize Kconfig entry |
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Nathan Scott wrote: > This patch makes the ramdisk blocksize configurable at kernel > compilation time rather than only at boot or module load time, > like a couple of the other ramdisk options. I found this handy > awhile back but thought little of it, until recently asked by a > few of the testing folks here to be able to do the same thing > for their automated test setups. > > The Kconfig comment is largely lifted from comments in rd.c, > and hopefully this will increase the chances of making folks > aware that the default value often isn't a great choice here > (for increasing values of PAGE_SIZE, even moreso).
This seems a bit odd to me... the sizes of most block devices is set by the filesystem, not hard-coded; the need for this implies something more fundamental is wrong.
-hpa
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