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From: "Hesse, Christian" <mail@earthworm.de>
To: Indrek Kruusa <indrek.kruusa@tuleriit.ee>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [QUESTION] Filesystem like structure in RAM w/o using filesystem (not ramdisk)
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 13:20:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200512011320.10092.mail@earthworm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <438EE256.6040403@tuleriit.ee>

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On Thursday 01 December 2005 12:45, Indrek Kruusa wrote:
> Hello!
>
> 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?
> Could it be possibly faster than ramdisk?

You should take a look at tmpfs, I think that is what you search for.
-- 
Christian

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-01 12:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-01 11:45 [QUESTION] Filesystem like structure in RAM w/o using filesystem (not ramdisk) Indrek Kruusa
2005-12-01 12:20 ` Hesse, Christian [this message]
2005-12-01 12:57 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2005-12-05  0:39 ` Rob Landley

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