Re: ramdisk/tmpfs/ramfs/memfs ?

From: David L. Parsley (parsley@linuxjedi.org)
Date: Fri Apr 27 2001 - 12:39:02 EST

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David Woodhouse wrote:

> Why copy it into RAM? Why not use cramfs and either turn the writable
> directories into symlinks into a ramfs which you create at boot time, or
> union-mount a ramfs over the top of it?
^^^^^^^^^^^

I didn't think we had union-mounting support... does it exist and
I've somehow missed it?

regards,
David

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David L. Parsley
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Roanoke College
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