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SubjectRe: [QUESTION] Filesystem like structure in RAM w/o using filesystem (not ramdisk)
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In article <438EE256.6040403@tuleriit.ee> you wrote:
> As I have understood the accessing ramdisk goes through the same kernel
> path which is meant for accessing slow block device (i_nodes caching etc.).
> Is there any other common way (some API above shared memory?) to
> create/open/read/write globally accessible hierarchical datablocks in RAM?

SYSV IPC Shared Memory?

> Could it be possibly faster than ramdisk?

I think if you mmap tmpfs files it is pretty good, which is what libc is
doing for shm emulation.

Gruss
Bernd
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