SUMMARY: Ramdisks for Solaris

From: Chris Kacoroski (ski@statsci.com)
Date: Wed Jan 08 1997 - 17:57:43 CST

According to the net there are no ramdisks for solaris (or unix in
general) because of virtual memory. There is a special memory partition
(man tmpfs) that allows a person to set up a memory based partition (it
uses your swap space), but this is not guaranteed to remain in memory.
One option is to by a solid state disk which would be very fast
(www.quantum.com). Thanks to the following folks:

heas@shrubbery.net
Glenn.Satchell@Uniq.com.au
nhk@WHU-Koblenz.de
rsk@itw.com
wightman@sol.acs.uwosh.edu
nleroy@norland.com
Matthew.Stier@MCI.Com 

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