Re: Need help in creating 8GB RAMDISK

From: John Richard Moser (nigelenki_at_comcast.net)
Date: 07/10/04

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To: Fawad Lateef <fawad_lateef@yahoo.com>

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    Fawad Lateef wrote:
    |>ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) writes:

    | Actually I need 7GB RAMDISK to use with my Caching
    | Drive Project. I have to use RAMDISK of 7GB or more
    | for the Caching purpose. The Architecture is like Disk
    | Caching Disk (DCD), but here I hav to use RAMDISK.

    What does this project do?

    |
    | I created RAMDISK using physical address as I hav
    | reserved all RAM above 1GB for my RAMDISK, but I am
    | not able to create RAMDISK of 7GB as a single Drive.
    |
    | Is there any Idea regarding this ????
    |
    | Fawad Lateef
    |
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