Re: Idea about a disc backed ram filesystem

[Joshua Hudson]

This just *screams* block-layer. If anybody feels up to it,
try making a modified loopback device that implements
an independent, fixed-size write-through cache using vmalloc and such.

I have a hunch it won't really improve performance much.
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