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Re: [BL] Loop BL3 uses a RAMDISK ?

From: 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org
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Subject: Re: [BL] Loop BL3 uses a RAMDISK ?
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 18:35:07 +1300

Alejandro Lieber wrote:
>
> I run BL3 in a loop with 8Mby of memory.
> When I do a dmesg I find:
> RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block0
> RAMDISK: Loading 94 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done
> Does it mean that some memory is used for a ram disk ?

Yes, the loop version of BL3 has a small ramdisk
(to anchor the loop file). IIRC it is less than 100kb.

Cheers,
Steven

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[BL] Loop BL3 uses a RAMDISK ?, Alejandro Lieber, 01/10/2005
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