Re: Using tmpfs for storage?

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, David Golden wrote:

> On Wednesday 10 July 2002 22:27, you wrote:
> > I was wondering if anyone has considered allocating all the available RAM
> > to memory and then using tmpfs for storage of files in RAM.  This way the
> > the ratio between ram/storage can chance dynamically based on the amount of
> > storage space used rather than having to be fixed.
> >
> > Would this be practical?  I'm sure tmpfs can be modified so that it doesn't
> > get erased on a reboot.
> 
> I certainly wondered why that wasn't done - or even if the "it doesn't get
> erased on a reboot" is necessary - in "normal" operation, most PDAs
> don't reboot, the on/off button is a power-management->standby()

Yes but sometimes it is necessary to reboot just like it is necessary to 
reboot a computer.  When doing so I would really not be happy if I lost 
all my important data.

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