On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 05:34:08PM -0800, Eric House wrote: > So there's no point in using ramdisks at all for non-boot tasks? You could use it to build a diskless client, e.g. make an X-terminal out of an old 486 with enough memory and a decent graphics card. To use a ramdisk on a running system: mke2fs /dev/ram1 number_of_512_bytes_blocks mount /dev/ram1 /your_mountpoint > I've read elsewhere that loading a compiler's include files, or > frequently referenced documentation, or an emulators's file system, > into a ramdisk would significantly improve performance. That's > not true? Not under linux. It will keep the right things in RAM automatically. > Thanks, BTW, (to you and others) for the quick responses. > > --Eric House > PS /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ramdisk.txt does not talk about using > ramdisks in any context other than for creating boot floppies. I guess > that's because they're pretty much useless otherwise? Probably. Nils -- *-----------------------------------------------------------------------------* | Quotes from the net: L> Linus Torvalds, W> Winfried Truemper | | L>this is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | W>Umh, oh. What do you mean by "special easter release"?. Will it quit | * W>working today and rise on easter? *
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