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

On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 17:28, wim delvaux wrote:
> 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 ???

Non Volatile Ram Disk
see http://www.savan.com/erez/nvrd.html for info

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