Re: DRAM filesystem

From: Goetz Bock <bock.a.t.blacknet.de>
Date: Fri Jun 29 2001 - 19:51:57 EDT

On Fri, Jun 29 '01 at 13:11, Brian King wrote:
> One of the discussions on HandHelds.org talked about
> stealing DRAM from Linux by setting a boot parameter
> and using that DRAM for persistent storage [ ... ]
> Unfortunately, the discussion mentions that it can be done,
> but doesn't give particulars.
It's more like a theoretical can. You'd have to write a special driver
to do this.

> I have a lot of unused DRAM; /mnt/ramfs usually has about 15MB
> free space.
Are you sure? the free ammodn in /mnt/ramfs is usually used for running
programs, buffers and caches (but if you dont start any programs, your
most likely right)

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Goetz Bock                                              IT Consultant
Dipl.-Inf. Univ.

Received on Fri Jun 29 16:47:22 2001

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