From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <20000820171034.21395.qmail@web6405.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 10:10:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Ramesh Panuganty Subject: memory file system on linux MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Hi, I am new to this group and came here while looking for a specific information. Can someone help me in getting the information (please reply to me directly). Are there any memory file systems on linux with which I can maitain the entire file system on RAM? - will /dev/ram come to of any help for me? - I had read about something like 'tmpfs' on SunOS which is a virtual filesystem that is entirely resident in the memory (probably shares the space with swap) Actually, I will tell you what I am looking for... I have a 32MB IDE-disc and a 64MB RAM on my machine. But these small IDE-discs support very limited number of I/O Operations in their life time. Hence to limit the I/O, I want to keep the 32MB file system itself on RAM and do a read-write only once during bootup and shutdown. Is there anyway, I can achieve this? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail ? Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/