RAM disk.

Jeremy G Harris jgh at root.co.uk
Wed Oct 10 19:10:44 AEST 1990


In article <1850 at necisa.ho.necisa.oz> boyd at necisa.ho.necisa.oz (Boyd Roberts) writes:
>When I hear `ram disk' I reach for my revolver.

I agree strongly.  However, increasing NBUF is not the only thing which should
be done (besides, I don't think it'll work all that well in V.4 or SunOS).
A tmpfs also should have absolutely no filesystem hardening.  No carefully
writing that inode out to disk.  Zilch.

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Jeremy Harris			jgh at root.co.uk			+44 71 315 6600



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