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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Ram disk with real disk "overflow"
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Date: Wed, 23-Apr-86 21:21:48 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 23 21:21:48 1986
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In article <6882@boring.UUCP> jack@mcvax.UUCP (Jack Jansen) writes:
> Something I've been thinking of (but never came around to doing) is to
> make a device of wich the first bit (say, .5Mb) is RAM disk, and the
> rest is real disk.

	How is this any different from just increasing the size of the
(already existing) kernel i/o buffer pool?
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016