Messages in this thread | | | From | Bernd Eckenfels <> | Subject | Re: [QUESTION] Filesystem like structure in RAM w/o using filesystem (not ramdisk) | Date | Thu, 01 Dec 2005 13:57:21 +0100 |
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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.
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