On Fri, February 17, 2006 8:53 am, David Rhodus wrote: > Has anyone looked at porting mdconfig and friends over from FreeBSD ?
NetBSD recently added tmpfs, as a replacement to mfs. This also may be worth looking at, if it performs better. (though mdconfig is a tool and tmpfs is a file system, so these are really two separate but related topics) For tmpfs, there's some benchmarks here, vs. NetBSD's existing mfs: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2005/10/04/0002.html Code's here: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/netbsd-soc/tmpfs/ I've had a recurring geek fantasy over the years of buying a motherboard and maxing out the installed RAM, and using most of that as a filesystem for buildworlds. Gigabyte was recently selling a PCI card with several gig of battery-backed RAM on it for use as a drive - relatively expensive, of course, even with how much RAM has dropped in price over the years.
