From: [email protected]
Date: Sat Jun 17 2000 - 18:17:13 CEST
In a message dated 6/17/00 11:00:50 AM Central Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
I think Michele means that each of the addons has the ramdisk number(s)
hard coded into the addon's code, so dymanic allocation is not possible.
If one of the Logical Volume Managers (those things that combine physical
drives into a bigger logical drive) were tiny (but they are not), it could
combine
ram0...ram15 into a larger ramtotal but this would still break all of the
install code.
>
> So that leaves us with ram3 for EXT and allocate the other ramdisks for
> the
> addons dynamically, this way you can use "millions" of addon disks.
> jef
> * - Truth is a compelling concept - *
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Michele Andreoli <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 1:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [muTech] Allocating ramdisks
>
>
> > On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 10:42:30AM +0200, jef knoors nicely wrote:
> > > Hello Michele,
> > > Might be an idea to allocate the ramdisk0-3 static.
> > > The other ramdisk4-15 dynamically.
> >
> > Obscure statement. ram0,1,2 ram for /, /usr and /tmp. ram1 and ram2
> > are allocated if you respond "y" to setup/usr and setup/tmp.
> >
> > Michele
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