Andrew Hoying, 2001-07-25 08:16 -0600
>I found the option to limit the maximum size of the tmpfs file system. If
>you add in the options area size=16m, for example, then it will never grow
>larger than 16 megabytes. And it truly is amazingly fast. I did a file
>copy between tmpfs file systems that between minix file systems took over
>3 minutes to complete on my system, and it finished in less than 20
>seconds with the tmpfs file systems.
>
>I certainly recommend everyone running a 2.4 kernel to test out the tmpfs
>file system for their non-root partitions. I might even look into the
>kernel patches we use to allow initrd to create a tmpfs root file system
>in the next week or two.
>
>Does anyone have any concerns or objections to looking at tmpfs as a fast,
>feature rich alternative to minix?
Andrew,
Have you done a comparison of ramdisk, tmpfs, ramfs, and memfs? I'd be very
interested in the results.
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