[lug] RAM based files, file systems

[Zan Lynx]

What you really want is called ramfs or tmpfs.  To see if you have those
available, cat /proc/filesystems.

ramfs is memory only.  tmpfs is swappable.  There are mount parameters
that control the size of the filesystem.

On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 21:41, Tony Dyson wrote:
> If you're talking about a "RAM-disk", this might help --
> 
> http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/Ramdisk/ramdisk.html
> 
> 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.
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