curaga
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Posted: June 16 2008,10:57 |
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| Quote | | Sidenote: Wait, is that's all that is required to make a ram disk in linux? I needed a way of storing a continuous written to file without writing it to a harddrive/flash. |
Yes. Although the max size is defined when compiling the kernel and is usually 4MB, and the max number of ramdisks is also defined compile-time, the default is 16. Most people use tmpfs instead, since it's newer, faster, and can be resized on the fly, but old-fashioned ramdisks have their uses.
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