Re: [iPAQ] Purpose of /mnt/ramfs ????

On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 17:00, Goetz Bock wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 15 '03 at 07:48, David_Won_at_hcm.honda.com wrote:
> > Can comebody tell me what the /mnt/ramfs is used for and why it seems to be
> > used so little.
> It's a so called RAMDISK. You can install stuff to it (actually you
> should have all your frequently changing stuff there, to not weare out
> your FLASH) but it will be lost once you loose power/reboot.
> So make backups frequently. (to your PC that is)
> With WinCE you only had that ramdisk to install programms to (except for
> the 3970 who has some flash). but WinCE is able to preserve that ramdisk
> over a reboot. Linux can not do this.
correction, with nvrd, linux can do it, and the RAMDISK will survive a
reboot.

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