Path: utzoo!dciem!client2!king
From: king@client2.dciem.dnd.ca (Stephen King)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: RAM Disks are obsolete
Message-ID: <1374@client2.dciem.dnd.ca>
Date: 16 Jan 89 13:25:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: client2.1374
References: <334@belltec.UUCP>
Reply-To: king@client2.dciem.dnd.ca (Stephen King)
Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada
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In article <334@belltec.UUCP> jom@belltec.UUCP (Jerry Merlaine) writes:
>With a RAM disk, you can't re-use the RAM for something else when the
>file system (database or whatnot) is not using it.
>With a RAM file system, however, you can allocate RAM when the user
>wants to store data and throw it away when the user removes files.

Not in the Amiga. The RAM disc software that comes with the machine
supports a dynamically resizeable disc. Write to it, and the capacity gets
bigger. Delete a file and the disc shrinks. It is volatile storage, and
always appears full, but it works.
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