[lug] RAM based files, file systems

[Hugh Brown]

On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 21:40, Steve Sullivan wrote:
> Is it possible to create files, or file systems,
> that exist only in RAM?  Long ago Solaris supported
> such a feature, but I don't find it in Linux.
> 
> Kind of like /proc, but where users can write small temp files
> for better performance.
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Steve
> 

It's called a ramdisk. 

http://lists.over.net/pipermail/mod_gzip/2001-March/004691.html  talks
about how to make one.  You are limited to 4k w/o hacking a kernel file.