From: Sven-Haegar Koch <haegar@sdinet.de>
To: rzryyvzy <rzryyvzy@trashmail.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is there a memory block device?
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:49:15 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0802262044120.2694@mercury.sdinet.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080226185336.9771B58477AE1@trashmail.net>
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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prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-26 20:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-26 18:53 rzryyvzy
2008-02-26 19:07 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-02-26 19:49 ` Sven-Haegar Koch [this message]
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