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New Ramdisk driver for 1.3.10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sun Jul 23 01:19:33 1995
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 14:46:13 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
X-Mn-Key: announce
From: Chad Page <cpage@shell1.best.com>
Subject: New Ramdisk driver for 1.3.10
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
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Keywords: ramdisk patch gunzip 1.3.10 1.2.11
I've posted a new ramdisk driver I've been working on to sunsite
and my own ftp area. As the lsm says, it supports both multiple ramdisks
(using secured buffer cache), and it can gunzip rootdisk images (allowing
*much* larger rootdisks to be put on one floppy - or on smaller disks!)
The code for gunzipping the ramdisk is adapted from cramdisk, written by
Richard Lyons.
It comes in two versions, one for 1.3.10, and an untested one for
1.2.11. For the 1.2.11 version I patched in the 1.3.10 diffs, and
corrected the patch to ll_rw_blk.c, and re-diffed it so that all the
lines of code line up correctly. I will maintain the 1.2.11 version
(hence the a after it), and continue to develop it primarily for 1.3.x.
The ramdisk driver is now distributed as a diff file, which can
be patched in the same way as the official kernel patches from Linus (I
borrowed his diff technique as shown in the kernel patches :)
The lsm for the ramdisk is below. Enjoy!
- Chad
Begin3
Title: Ramdisk+
Version: 0.9 (for 1.3.10, and untested for 1.2.11)
Entered-date: July 16, 1995
Description: A replacement ramdisk driver which can load gzipped
rootdisk images from floppy. Contains a lot of code from cramdisk, but
needs no special tools to use. For 1.2.11 (less tested) and 1.3.10 -
distributed as a unified diff file
Keywords: ramdisk patch 1.2.11 1.3.10+
Author: Chad Page et. al (cpage@best.com)
Maintained-by: cpage@best.com
Primary-site: ftp.best.com:/pub/cpage/ramdisk/ramdisk-1.3.x.gz and
ramdisk-1.2.10a.diff.gz
Alternate-site: sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/linux/?
Original-site: ftp.best.com:/pub/cpage/ramdisk
Platform: Linux 1.2-3.x (what else?)
Copying-policy: GPL
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