From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; T312461) Description of problem: After upgrade the kernel to kernel-smp-2.4.18-18.7.x.athlon.rpm in a RH 7.2, and kernel-smp-2.4.18-17.7.x.athlon.rpm in a RH 7.3. The ramfs didn't work well. If I deleted the files in ramfs mount point, the mount have the same used size. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. mount -t /dev/ram /mnt/ramdisk -o maxsize=28000 2. cp /tmp/* /mnt/ramdisk 3. df 4. "/dev/ram 28000 4184 23816 15% /mnt/ramdisk" 5. rm -rf /mnt/ramdisk/* 6. df 7. "/dev/ram 28000 4184 23816 15% /mnt/ramdisk" Actual Results: After I deleted the files in a ramfs mount point, the used size didn't decrease. Intead, the used size increase to empty the left space. Expected Results: I expexted the ramfs decrease the used size after I deleted some files. Additional info: Plataforms: Athlon (dual) with Red Hat 7.2 instalation: updgrade from kernel-2.4.9- 34.athlon.rpm to kernel-smp-2.4.18-18.7.x.athlon.rpm. The ramfs worked fine with Kernel 2.4.9-34 Athlon with Red Hat 7.3 instalation: upgrade from kernel-2.4.18-10.athlon.rpm to kernel-2.4.18-17.7.x.athlon.rpm. I didn't test the ramfs in Kernel 2.4.18-10 enviroment, only in 2.4.18-17.7.x
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