dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/null bs=always

I am writing to announce the update release of my Linux RAM disk kernel module RapidDisk (rxdsk). It is currently at a stable 1.1b release with added support for dynamic resizing of attached rxdsk volumes. More information can be found at http://rxdsk.petroskoutoupis.com.

Note - So far this has only been tested and seen as fully functional on the 2.6.32 and 2.6.35 kernels. There is a plan to upmerge to the 3.x line by the next official release. This will not build in 2.6.37 due to the deprecation of the blk_queue_ordered() function routine. To build it for 2.6.37 and later, please replace the following line (used once in module/drivers/block/rxdsk.c file):

blk_queue_ordered(rxdsk->rxdsk_queue, QUEUE_ORDERED_TAG, NULL);

with:

blk_queue_flush(rxdsk->rxdsk_queue, REQ_FLUSH);

Also note that I haven’t tested with this new routine yet.