Indeed, my terminology is inexact. I believe you are correct; our
diskless nodes use tmpfs, not ramdisk. Thanks for the clarification!
On 11/4/11 11:00 AM, Rushton Martin wrote:
There appears to be some confusion about ramdisks and tmpfs. A ramdisk
sets aside a fixed amount of memory for its
There appears to be some confusion about ramdisks and tmpfs. A ramdisk
sets aside a fixed amount of memory for its exclusive use, so that a
file being written to ramdisk goes first to the cache, then to ramdisk,
and may exist in both for some time. tmpfs however opens up the cache
to programs so
