Anybody know of a *NIX distro that runs from a RAM drive? What would the performance gain be?
I just read about a RAM drive card on /. that can do 2GB, but the cost is nutz. So I was thinking that since RAM is fairly cheap now and mobos are supporting larger amounts of RAM it would be cool to have a distro where the entire filesystem in a big RAM drive. Permanent storage could be achieved by writing the contents of the RAM drive to the hard drive. It seems that something like this would run faster than accessing a file system via the hard drive. The only drawback is keeping power up to the box, but with UPSs and the reliable hardware available now, the risk would be worth the extra speed for certain applications. -- John Hebert
