Re: RAM disk

On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 8:16 AM, David Brownlee <[email protected]> wrote:

>        The simplest option is probably to mount a tmpfs filesystem and
>        copy the files you want to it, then copy things back when done.
>
>        eg:
>
>        # mkdir /ramdisk
>        # mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /ramdisk


mount_tmpfs: tmpfs on /ramdisk: Operation not supported by device



>
>        # cp -R /somedir /ramdisk
>
>        the tmpfs will grow and shrink as necessary, so watch out if you
>        put too much data on there and use up all your ram...
>

Understood

this seems like the solution for me.

I'll try out the other things you suggested asap.

-s


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