ramdisk down

[harrison.picot]

My work station seemed to get messed up either when I installed a zfs
pool, or when I ripped it out because the box had suddenly got too
slow (perhaps because the ramdisk was already down).

# uname -a
SunOS rebel 5.10 Generic_118833-33 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60

(from ramdiskadm "Without options, ramdiskadm
lists any existing ramdisks"

# ramdiskadm
# (none seem to exist)

Console message:
Jun 23 07:18:32 rebel ramdisk: root: existing property missing
(something wants to create a ramdisk, but what is it?)

Does anyone know where the "existing property missing" might be
located? With smf it seems to be harder to find where processes are
started and thus harder to figure out what they are doing. Not that
smf is all bad.

From the man pages

FILES
/dev/ramdisk/diskname

Block device for ramdisk named diskname.

/dev/rramdisk/diskname

Raw device for ramdisk name diskname
(looking for those)

# cd /dev/ramdisk
/dev/ramdisk: does not exist
# cd /dev/rramdisk
/dev/rramdisk: does not exist
#

(from ramdiskadm "As shipped, /dev/ramdiskctl is owned by root,
mode 0644, so all users can do query operations but only
root can perform state-changing operations."
# ls -l /dev/ramdiskctl
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Dec 23 2006 /dev/ramdiskctl -
>

../devices/pseudo/ramdisk@1024:ctl
# ls -l /devices/pseudo/ramdisk*
crw-r--r-- 1 root sys 70, 0 Jun 22 14:49
/devices/pseudo/ramdisk@1024:ctl

(mode seems to be correct)

The almost fast answer seems to be just reloading the OS and not
figure this out, but even that seems a lot harder than fixing it.

[ThanksButNo]

On Jun 23, 9:02 pm, "harrison.picot" <harrison.ppi...@verizon.net>
wrote:

> My work station  seemed to get messed up either when I installed a zfs
> pool, or when I ripped it out because the box had suddenly got too
> slow (perhaps  because the ramdisk was already down).
>
> # uname -a
> SunOS rebel 5.10 Generic_118833-33 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60
>

I hate to see a question sit for two days and not have
an answer for it.

I can't help, because I don't know the first thing about
ramdisks. But I know how to use Google.

Try this: one of many sites I found searching "Solaris ramdisk"

http://www.lildude.co.uk/howto-create-a-solaris-10-ram-disk-image/

It might or might not help. But if no one here can help you,
I'm sure somebody out there can.

/:-/