linux ramdisk limitations @ 512m (Score 1)

in an attempt to make a homebrew solid state solution a month ago, i purchased 2gb of pc133 and threw it in my desktop.. only to discover that a limitation in the linux ramdisk code (malloc issues i believe) limits the size of ramdisks to 512m, and even at that size i experienced some incredibly flakey behavior.. not to mention the fact that enabling large memory support in my kernel broke the nvidia glx drivers and a whole bunch of other stuff that was very obviously never tested on a machine with crazy amounts of ram.

using a combination of a huge initrd image that never unloads, and a journaling filesystem like reiser it would be incredibly simple to build a machine running entirely from solidstate media using a network/platter-based volume to re-populate the ram on boot in the event of a power loss to the last mirrored state of the FS..

but the code is lacking! *nudge nudge*

-hmodes