RapidDisk Project Update Release 2.12 | Linux Today

RapidDisk Project Update Release 2.12

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PK
Petros Koutoupis
Apr 17, 2014

RapidDisk is an advanced Linux RAM Disk which consists of a collection of modules and an administration tool. Features include: Dynamically allocate RAM as block device. Use them as stand alone disk drives or even map them as caching nodes to slower local disk drives.

I just pushed RapidDisk release 2.12 to the git repo. The changelog can be found here: http://www.rapiddisk.org/?page_id=19

The RapidDisk and RapidCache modules have been updated for the 3.14 kernel. A few changes in the kernel block structures warranted a little bit of rewrite for this new kernel. For the most part the changes were trivial and straight forward and without risk. Thanks go to Marcel Huber for identifying the compile issue and for testing the modules. He also discovered a bug in the rxio test utility which apparently existed on 64-bit systems. It makes sense since I originally wrote and used it on a 32 bit system.

PK

Petros Koutoupis

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