Re: Large Ramdisk creation causes crashes

[Brandon Ooi <tech@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah I believe it is a bug. 

Thanks for the tmpfs suggestion. Hopefully this will run well. It does 
seem to work so I'll post my findings later.

Brandon

Andy Green wrote:

> I would consider to Bugzilla it under 'kernel'.
>
> In the meantime someone else mentioned tmpfs, that'd do you just fine:
>
> mount -t tmpfs -o mode=1777,size=1024M none /mnt/myfs
>
> will get you a 1GB /tmp-style "drive" ready to store things on without
> formatting (in one step, without needing raid either).
>
> -Andy
>