Large Ramdisk creation causes crashes

[Brandon Ooi]

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