I created a RAMFS of size 5 MB, and started filling data into that.

When it exceeds 5 MB there is no alert / error.

It is going up to the size of RAM available. So it makes the system to hang.

How to identify when the RAMFS got filled ?? I want to stop writing when the RAMFS got filled.

I was curious myself and surprised I have no documentation of ramfs anywhere that I can find on my own Linux system, so I tried google and the first hit was

http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Docum...-initramfs.txt

which explains it very well, including the answer to your question and alternatives. I think the file
Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt
containing that explanation is a common Linux file (not something special to that website). I just don't happen to have a copy on my system.

Edit, now there is a copy of it on my system. The file is actually
ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt.gz
and it landed in the directory
/usr/share/doc/linux-doc-2.6.22/Documentation/filesystems
when I installed the package linux-doc-2.6.22

But for your purposes, I think all that file tells you is to use tmpfs instead. See tmpfs.txt.gz in the same directory.

hi john,

A very great thanks for you.

I searched this for a long time, but unable to find.

With the documentation URL you had given i seen the solution, and experimented, and now am able to create SIZE limited tmpfs.

I gone through the another URL from the URL you gave

TMPFS
http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Docum...tems/tmpfs.txt

i came to know RAMFS will dynamically grow, TMPFS is fixed size.

THANKS....

Hi,

Finally i wrote out an article about the tmpfs & ramfs which is available [MODERATED]

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