tmpfs, ramfs, memfs

[George Toft]

Liberty Young wrote:
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> Anybody have any data comparing tmpfs, ramfs, and other ramdisk like
> filesystems? I have an application with no swap, at 16 to 64 MB ram,
> running on a Compact Flash IDE card. I'm looking for good data on
> whether to use ramfs ramdisk for /var and /tmp, whereas the rest of the=

> OS is mounted ro (to prevent file system corruptions).
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I set up my firewall using a ramdisk and I mke2fs in the init script
before mounting all filesystems.  After mounting, I untar the previous
contents into the ramdisk.  I also tar up the contents periodically, and
whenever changing run levels.  Works fine.  Maybe your application will,
too?

George
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