Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!pyrltd!root44!jgh
From: jgh@root.co.uk (Jeremy G Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: RAM disk.
Message-ID: <2462@root44.co.uk>
Date: 10 Oct 90 09:10:44 GMT
References: <18560@rpp386.cactus.org> <143359@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <18574@rpp386.cactus.org> <1850@necisa.ho.necisa.oz>
Reply-To: jgh@root.co.uk (Jeremy G Harris)
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In article <1850@necisa.ho.necisa.oz> boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz (Boyd Roberts) writes:
>When I hear `ram disk' I reach for my revolver.

I agree strongly.  However, increasing NBUF is not the only thing which should
be done (besides, I don't think it'll work all that well in V.4 or SunOS).
A tmpfs also should have absolutely no filesystem hardening.  No carefully
writing that inode out to disk.  Zilch.

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