who's using tmpfs?

Jerry McBride mcbrides9
Mon May 17 11:37:42 PDT 2004


On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 18:03:07 -0700 "Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> I'm working on a project where i think tmpfs might be beneficial.  Can 
> anyone provide any hints or gotchas that i should be aware of?  Also, 
> anyone willing to write a brief SxS?
> 


If tmpfs isn't a block device... would it therefore have faster I/O than a
regular ramdisk? Seems to me that it would be, with less overhead...


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