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delta407
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 Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2002 11:29 pm Post subject: Ramdisk init script |
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On a whim (mostly), I wrote an init script for handling ramdrives. Basically, you tell it where you want it to make a ramdrive, and it will do all kinds of nifty things such as automatically save its contents and restore it as necessary. Anyway, here's the code:
/etc/init.d/ramdisk:
| Code: | #!/sbin/runscript
# Written by delta407 (delta407@lerfjhax.com)
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, v2 or later
depend() {
need localmount
}
start() {
mkdir -p ${RDPATH}
for MP in ${RAMDISKS}; do
MPN=`echo ${MP} | sed -e 's/\//-/g' -e 's/^-//g' -e 's/-$//g'`
ebegin "Starting ramdisk on ${MP}"
TARCMD="tar xpf${RDTAROPTS} ${RDPATH}/${MPN}${RDTARSUFFIX}"
[[ -e ${RDPATH}/${MPN}${RDTARSUFFIX} ]] || TARCMD="true"
touch ${RDPATH}/${MPN}${RDTARSUFFIX}
mount ${MPN} ${MP} -t tmpfs && \
cd ${MP}/.. && \
`${TARCMD}`
eend $?
done
}
stop() {
mkdir -p ${RDPATH}
for MP in ${RAMDISKS}; do
MPN=`echo ${MP} | sed -e 's/\//-/g' -e 's/^-//g' -e 's/-$//g'`
ebegin "Stopping ramdisk on ${MP}"
cd ${MP}/.. && \
tar cpf${RDTAROPTS} ${RDPATH}/${MPN}${RDTARSUFFIX} `basename ${MP}` && \
umount ${MP}
eend $?
done
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/etc/conf.d/ramdisk:
| Code: | # Config file for /etc/init.d/ramdisk
# Space-separated mountpoints that should be ramdisks
RAMDISKS="/mnt/rd"
# Path to store ramdisk tarballs in
# This will be created as necessary
RDPATH="/var/ramdisk"
# Extra flags to pass to tar
# Change this to "z" to gzip, "j" to bzip2, or empty for no compression
# Note that changing this will require modifying the file in RDPATH accordingly
# (i.e. going from z to j you would gunzip then bzip2 the tar file, etc.)
RDTAROPTS="z"
# Tar file suffix
# If you enabled compression, you might want to make this .tar.gz or .tbz2 or something
RDTARSUFFIX=".tar.gz"
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Think about this if you're running a rsync mirror, since rsync mtime()s the whole tree whenever someone connects. You can get some serious performance boosts out of it.
Potential problems, though, include loss of data since the last /etc/init.d/ramdisk restart if power is lost. (That's what happens, it's in RAM.)
Anyway, hope you find this useful.
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SAckerman
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| Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2002 4:38 am Post subject: Ramdisk init script |
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Actually I am interested in your script...
I am trying to setup a system using a 512mb mem card with an IDE interface. The cards are not reccommended for continuous r/w so I thought I could boot from it then copy /, /bin, /sbin and /lib to a ramdisk and run /var, /usr and /opt from a hard disk. This is for a firewall/proxy machine. I think your script could probably be easily modified to do this... but I am not a very good scripter. |
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TuxFriend
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| Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2002 6:05 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for this script. I do have a few questions:
- I have tmpfs enabled in my fstab (doesn't seem to do anything though) is it that required or prohibited?
- Is ramdisk "user-friendly" when doing memory allocation, I mean does it give itself the lowest priority so other programs keep running or is it too "greedy" when allocating memory? Is the allocation static or dynamic?
- Do you want to submit this to bugzilla so it will be available in Gentoo? I think a lot of people would appreciate it.
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delta407
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| Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2002 6:26 am Post subject: |
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I have a few answers: 
- Just "rc-update add ramdisk boot" and there will be no need for an fstab entry. (It calls mount explicitly, so it will override your fstab either way.)
- The ramdisk acts just like any other tmpfs drive. I think it obeys the same swapping rules as user-mode programs -- i.e. it will act intelligently if you run out of RAM.
- I don't know where I would submit it to Bugzilla, and as such, I won't (at least not yet). I thought others would appreciate it; that's why I posted it here.
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TuxFriend
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| Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2002 6:41 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for your quick reply.
Since you are in the mood for providing information, (hopefully) last question:
I saw in another post your tip "# mount portagetemp /var/tmp/portage/ -t tmpfs". Is this still required or is the "rc-update add ramdisk boot" sufficient?
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BTW. don't you sleep? It looks like you post 24/7 |
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delta407
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I do sleep, but my hours vary.
Anyway, if you wanted /var/tmp/portage to be a ramdrive (tmpfs), just change or add '/var/tmp/portage' to the RAMDISKS variable.
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delta407
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| Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2002 8:40 pm Post subject: Re: Ramdisk init script |
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| SAckerman wrote: | | I am trying to setup a system using a 512mb mem card with an IDE interface. The cards are not reccommended for continuous r/w so I thought I could boot from it then copy /, /bin, /sbin and /lib to a ramdisk and run /var, /usr and /opt from a hard disk. |
I thought about this a while, and I think you would be better off using an initrd. (Ask Google.)
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arkane
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| Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2002 2:44 pm Post subject: |
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There is documentation for initrd in the kernel documentation.
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/initrd.txt
Also documentation on ramdisk usage in there... same path, ramdisk.txt.
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arkane
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| Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2002 3:18 pm Post subject: |
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I just copied over the init.d and conf.d scripts, made a directory in /var called ramdisk, chmod'ed 755 /etc/init.d/ramdisk /etc/conf.d/ramdisk, and then tried executing /etc/init.d/ramdisk, but it gives me the error:
bash-2.05a# /etc/init.d/ramdisk start
* ERROR: "/etc/init.d/ramdisk" has syntax errors in it; not executing...
(I copied/pasted to Kate, so the format was kept)
I looked at it, but from my eyes I can't see anything wrong.... |
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pjp
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| Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2002 3:39 pm Post subject: Re: Ramdisk init script |
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| Code: | | tar cpf${RDTAROPTS} ${RDPATH}/${MPN}${RDTARSUFFIX} `basename ${MP}` && \ |
Is that all on one line? In the code block from delta407's post, it looks like the && \ is on a seperate line. I'm guessing browser width wrapped it. Any other similar lines get wrapped for you?
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delta407
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| Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2002 2:43 am Post subject: |
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| arkane wrote: | bash-2.05a# /etc/init.d/ramdisk start
* ERROR: "/etc/init.d/ramdisk" has syntax errors in it; not executing... |
See, that's one thing I detest about /sbin/runscript.sh. It blows up but doesn't tell you what's wrong.
Does `bash /etc/init.d/ramdisk` and get a more descriptive message?
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| Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2002 1:15 am Post subject: |
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Nevermind...
It probably was the formatting. I removed everything and copied/pasted through VI, now everything is working....
strange. |
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dreamer3
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| Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2002 7:39 am Post subject: |
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| Along those same lines you might find this and this useful as well. |
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