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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: RAM Disk in UNIX
Keywords: RAM Disk
Message-ID: <3871@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 7 May 91 23:12:13 GMT
References: <1169@gistdev.gist.com> <1170@gistdev.gist.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <1170@gistdev.gist.com> flint@gistdev.gist.com (Flint Pellett) writes:

| Several people pointed out that ISC already has a RAM disk capability
| built in. 

SCO has support as well, although they tell you (correctly) that in most
cases your system will run better with the memory as memory. They also
allow a device which is shared by processes and which goes away when the
last processes closes it. Handy.
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bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
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