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Subject: Re: Need help in creating 8GB RAMDISK
From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 23:32:32 -0700
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If I understand correctly, earlier you said that you can use
your RAM into multiple ramdisks totalling 7GB or more, and the
only thing you are unable to do is to make it a single ramdisk.
If that is the case, I guess you should be able to kludge those
ramdisks together using raid0 or LVM.