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# broken ramdisk in linux 2.3.18

Clifford Wolf (clifford@clifford.at)
Sat, 11 Sep 1999 18:55:48 +0200 (MEST)

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Hi,

I have the following problem with the ramdisk in linux 2.3.18. This little
test script shows the problem:

-- snip --
#!/bin/sh

rddev=/dev/rd/5

uname -a
mkdir -p /tmp/$$.mnt
mke2fs -qvm0 $rddev 1024 2>&1
mount $rddev /tmp/$$.mnt ; cp /vmlinuz /tmp/$$.mnt/data.dat ; umount $rddev
mount $rddev /tmp/$$.mnt ; cmp /vmlinuz /tmp/$$.mnt/data.dat ; umount $rddev
rmdir /tmp/$$.mnt
-- snip --

The output I get is:

-- snip --
Linux duesentrieb 2.3.18 #1 SMP Sat Sep 11 12:02:49 MEST 1999 i586 unknown
mke2fs 1.15, 18-Jul-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
/vmlinuz /tmp/2392.mnt/data.dat differ: char 1, line 1
-- snip --

As you can see the files differ. But that's impossible becouse its the
same file! I've found the problem when building some disk images.

I also got some problems with the loopback device.

BTW: I'm using devfs-121 and gcc 2.95.1. The system I'm using is the
latest ROCK Linux snapshot (http://linux.rock-projects.com/).

yours,
- clifford

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