In article <1ulsslINNcqt@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> tytso@athena.mit.edu writes:
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>   From: bae@work.seas.upenn.edu (KYUNG)
>   Date: 3 Jun 93 16:02:49 GMT
>
>   I was wondering if you can select a specific address space for a ramdisk.
>   For example, if I wanted a ramdisk to start at, let's just say, the 8th 
>   megabyte and goes for one megabyte, how would I do that??
>
>No, you can't --- not without modifying the kernel.  Why on earth would
>you want to do that, though?  One section of the memory is like
>another....

        Perhaps if you wanted to implement a recoverable RAM disk that
survives system warm boots.  I believe there are RAM disk drivers for the
AMIGA that allow this.  I'm not sure under what circumstances this would be
useful under Linux, but I can't say it would be worthless either.

                                Bill Bogstad