[OpenAFS] AFS without caching possible?

[Hartmut Reuter]

We mostly use ramdisks as cache in Linux 2.4 and AIX 5.2. Did you do 
correctly a mkfs for ext2?
We have this in our /etc/init.d/afs:

/sbin/mkfs /dev/ram1 16384 >/dev/null 2>&1
mount /dev/ram1 /usr/vice/cache

Hartmut




Cajus Pollmeier wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I've some trouble with discless clients where I need to get access to some /afs directories.
> AFAIK I need some cache to make AFS work, but I've no physical disc to place it. Putting it
> on a ramdisc results in:
> 
>  <1>Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c49071e9
>  printing eip:
> c49071e9
> *pde = 03d97067
> *pte = 00000000
> Oops: 0000
> CPU:    0
> EIP:    0010:[<c49071e9>]    Tainted: PF
> EFLAGS: 00010256
> eax: 00000000   ebx: c23f6000   ecx: c23f7f04   edx: 00000000
> esi: c24917d0   edi: c24917c0   ebp: c23f7f54   esp: c23f7f34
> ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
> Process afs_rxevent (pid: 614, stackpage=c23f7000)
> Stack: 00000000 f124b012 00000033 00000000 00000000 c23f6000 00000000 00000000
>        00000000 c23f6000 c24917d0 c24917d0 c23f6000 00000000 c03a1700 401f73dc
>        00000000 000001f4 00000000 c4906eb2 c492bdc4 000001f4 00000000 0000002d
> Call Trace:    [<c02be5a6>] [<c0106ff7>]
> 
> Code:  Bad EIP value.
> 
> Kernel 2.4.21, OpenAFS 1.2.11
> 
> Any hints?
> 
> Thanks,
> Cajus
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