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From: "Ervin Németh" <ervin.nemeth@××××.hu>
To: gentoo-performance@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-performance] ramdisk
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 08:22:04
Message-Id: 4178C324.1060501@niif.hu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-performance] ramdisk by Bart
1 Hi,
2
3 IMHO Linux has very good caching mechanism, so there is no need of
4 ramdisks (er, ramfs or tmpfs) in most situations.
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6 On the contrary, Solaris is using tmpfs for /tmp and /var/run. I really
7 like this idea, so after Gentoo install I always add
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9 none /tmp tmpfs size=64M,mode=1777 0 0
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11 to my fstab. Your preferences may differ.
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14 /Ervin
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Re: [gentoo-performance] ramdisk Aaron Walker <ka0ttic@g.o>