Ramdisk [was(Re: computing speed depends on location of swap partition??)]

[manas garg <manasg@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Lister Vaz wrote:

> What is a ramdisk...and.. how does it differ from a swap partition
> ?????????

Ramdisk is a part of RAM that is used as hard drive. This option is
enabled during compile time. So, you can make a file system on the your
RAM, and mount it just as you mount /tmp or /usr or /var or whatever. Any
data that is written on this file system will be lost once you reboot (as
it's still RAM), but as long as the machine is up, access to that file
system will be done at a supersonic speed (Disclaimer: I haven't tried
that). You can read

	/usr/src/linux/Documentation/ramdisk.txt

Nice source!

Manas


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