Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mcnc!uvaarpa!murdoch!astsun8.astro.Virginia.EDU!gsh7w From: gsh7w@astsun8.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg S. Hennessy) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Real disk FASTER than Ram disk Message-ID: <1990May27.210935.8564@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Date: 27 May 90 21:09:35 GMT References: <5461@titcce.cc.titech.ac.jp> <641@sibyl.eleceng.ua.OZ> <136299@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Sender: news@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia Lines: 12 In article <136299@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> lm@sun.UUCP (Larry McVoy) writes: #As a side note: check out Sun's tmpfs. It's a variable sized ram disk that #doesn't do the extra copy. I can't find anything about it in the man pages. Is it available on 4.0? -- -Greg Hennessy, University of Virginia USPS Mail: Astronomy Department, Charlottesville, VA 22903-2475 USA Internet: gsh7w@virginia.edu UUCP: ...!uunet!virginia!gsh7w