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From: grol@oce-rd3.UUCP (Geert Rolf)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Ram disk with real disk "overflow"
Message-ID: <347@oce-rd3.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 23-Apr-86 06:58:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: oce-rd3.347
Posted: Wed Apr 23 06:58:23 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 27-Apr-86 05:55:38 EDT
References: <2213@brl-smoke.ARPA> <108@spock.fluke.UUCP> <6882@boring.UUCP>
Reply-To: grol@oce-rd3.UUCP (Geert Rolf)
Organization: Oce, Venlo ,The Netherlands
Lines: 12
Keywords: RAM disc, disc caching
Summary: why should you do this

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.
>The problem with RAM disks is that they're usually small, and you loose
>big when they run out of space. If you have an overflow capability onto
>a real disk, there's no problem.

What do you want, Jack?? Another name/implementation for the disc-cache?

	Geert R.
	[don't like oysters; do like shells]