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From: boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz (Boyd Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: RAM disk.
Message-ID: <1850@necisa.ho.necisa.oz>
Date: 9 Oct 90 04:45:00 GMT
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When I hear `ram disk' I reach for my revolver.  Now, repeat after me...

    What is the buffer cache? -- A ram disk.

Increase NBUF and throw tmpfs away.  Vote 1 comp.unix.gizzards.


Boyd Roberts			boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au

``When the going gets wierd, the weird turn pro...''