Re: Linux 2.4.10-pre11

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Fri, 21 Sep 2001 06:06:48 +0200


On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 12:00:35AM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> Well, taking a file on ramfs and doing losetup on it should be equivalent
> to ramdisk. Turning relevant pieces into a driver shouldn't be too hard.
> It won't be pretty, though - you'll probably want different
> address_space_operations, so that read()/write() wouldn't bother with
> requests at all.

My same idea, agreed.

Andrea
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