ramdisks

[Tim]

On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 13:42 -0700, Mike Wright wrote:
> I looked at tmpfs but that doesn't seem to accomplish what I want.
> With ramdisks I can mount them over the top of pre-existing
> directories, play to my heart's content, and leave the underlying
> files untouched.

You can do that with tmpfs, too.  Which method's best for you will
depend on other requirements.  

Some notes:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMPFS

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