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

On Wednesday 15 January 2003 14:24, AntiProxy wrote:
> 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.

        What is nvrd ???
        
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Received on Wed Jan 15 2003 - 13:29:17 EST