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From: "Joshua Hudson" <joshudson@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Idea about a disc backed ram filesystem
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This just *screams* block-layer. If anybody feels up to it,
try making a modified loopback device that implements
an independent, fixed-size write-through cache using vmalloc and such.

I have a hunch it won't really improve performance much.