Re: persistent storage with ramfs

My solution for this was to store the files as a gzipped tar
in /root and add a menu item to blackbox to unpack it into
ramfs. That way if I don't recharge the battery in time,
it's easy to restore my data (local web pages in this case).

//Bill

Goetz Bock wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 15 '01 at 11:53, Gaël EVENO wrote:
> > I know this questions has already been asked , but I found no answer. I
> > want use a bit of my ramfs as a persistent storage. I've looked for into
> > Wiki, pipermail, but I found nothing about ramfs.
> Short answer:
>
> It does not work
>
> Long answer:
>
> While this would be possible, it requires bootloader support and new
> kernel drivers and noone (AFAIK) has bothered to write them. BTW: I
> think it's not that easy.
> --
> Goetz Bock IT Consultant
> Dipl.-Inf. Univ.
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Received on Fri Aug 17 08:05:39 2001