Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:49:15 +0100 (CET) | From | Sven-Haegar Koch <> | Subject | Re: Is there a memory block device? |
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On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, rzryyvzy wrote:
> I know that tmpfs is a memmory filesystem. Is there a possibility to > create also a memory block device? > Is there a possibility to create for example a 1 GB memory block device > (from the RAM)?
There are the /dev/ram* devices, created through kernel config CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM (RAM disk support), kernel module rd.ko
But I'm not sure how to configure their size besides setting the kernel config option, it's a long time ago that I used them last.
c'ya sven
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