From f5abc8e75815fc6e8f4635d2c011315d132a32cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:55:27 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt: updates - ramdisk_blocksize doesn't exist anymore - Module parameters added to documentation Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> --- Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt | 21 +++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt b/Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt index fa72e97dd6694..fe2ef978d85a4 100644 --- a/Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt +++ b/Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt @@ -36,21 +36,30 @@ allowing one to squeeze more programs onto an average installation or rescue floppy disk. -2) Kernel Command Line Parameters +2) Parameters --------------------------------- +2a) Kernel Command Line Parameters + ramdisk_size=N ============== This parameter tells the RAM disk driver to set up RAM disks of N k size. The -default is 4096 (4 MB) (8192 (8 MB) on S390). +default is 4096 (4 MB). + +2b) Module parameters - ramdisk_blocksize=N - =================== + rd_nr + ===== + /dev/ramX devices created. -This parameter tells the RAM disk driver how many bytes to use per block. The -default is 1024 (BLOCK_SIZE). + max_part + ======== + Maximum partition number. + rd_size + ======= + See ramdisk_size. 3) Using "rdev -r" ------------------ -- GitLab