Running inn under 64x.

[Alexander Bartolich]

Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
 > [...]
 > BTW, using /dev/sdXX directly isn't all that ideal ..
 > try rawfs
 > from ftp://ftp.xs4all.nl/pub/people/miquels/kernel/v2.6/

http://groups.google.com/group/news.software.nntp/msg/db66ecb5946cf29f
# Message-ID: <alaihu$29u$1 at ncc1701.cistron.net>
# Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 15:45:02 +0000 (UTC)
# From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" [...]
# [...]
# Blockdevices in 2.2 kernels don't have mmap() support, so you can't
# use them directly for CNFS. So I wrote a 'rawfs' that simply maps
# partitions to fixed-size files.
# [...]
# With linux-2.4 kernels this isn't needed anymore since you can
# just use /dev/sdb1 directly.

I am using 21 logical volumes of 2 GB each with "articlemmap"
and "use-mmap" enabled, on Debian Sarge with a kernel from Sid.
No problems so far.

Ciao

     Alexander.