who's using tmpfs?

[Net Llama!]

Jerry McBride wrote:
> 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...

Dunno.  I would think it would be the same speed, since its all in 
memory regardless.

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