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Re: A memory-based filesystem for the lazy [or impatient]
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Marcus Brinkmann |
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Re: A memory-based filesystem for the lazy [or impatient] |
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Sat, 23 Dec 2000 14:13:52 +0100 |
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On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 03:51:34PM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote:
> Just like any other, with mke2fs.
>
> settrans -c /dev/ramdisk /hurd/storeio -Tcopy zero:100M
> mke2fs /dev/ramdisk
> settrans -a /tmp /hurd/ext2fs /dev/ramdisk
>
> It is true that there isn't a handy way to make:
>
> settrans -a /tmp /hurd/ext2fs -Tcopy zero:100M
>
> do what you'd like. This is unfortunate, since it is definitely better for
> performance to have the store implementation in ext2fs's libstore rather
> than in storeio's.
It's also unfortunate because you can't readily use the ramdisk after a
reboot, if you try to put a passive translator on /tmp in the above example.
Marcus
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- Re: A memory-based filesystem for the lazy [or impatient], (continued)
- Re: A memory-based filesystem for the lazy [or impatient], Roland McGrath, 2000/12/21
- Re: A memory-based filesystem for the lazy [or impatient], Marcus Brinkmann, 2000/12/21
- Re: A memory-based filesystem for the lazy [or impatient], Roland McGrath, 2000/12/21
- Re: A memory-based filesystem for the lazy [or impatient], Marcus Brinkmann, 2000/12/23
- Re: A memory-based filesystem for the lazy [or impatient], Roland McGrath, 2000/12/23
- Re: A memory-based filesystem for the lazy [or impatient], Roland McGrath, 2000/12/23
- Re: A memory-based filesystem for the lazy [or impatient], Marcus Brinkmann, 2000/12/25
- Re: A memory-based filesystem for the lazy [or impatient], Roland McGrath, 2000/12/26
- Re: A memory-based filesystem for the lazy [or impatient], Joshua Rosen, 2000/12/23
- Re: A memory-based filesystem for the lazy [or impatient],
Marcus Brinkmann <=
Re: A memory-based filesystem for the lazy [or impatient], Roland McGrath, 2000/12/21