From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 29 10:10: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from donkeykong.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (donkeykong.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 112D437B401 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:10:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from battlezone.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (smtp@battlezone.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.140]) by donkeykong.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/4.3-mailhub) with ESMTP id NAA26511; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 13:10:06 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (timcm@localhost) by battlezone.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/5.1-client) with ESMTP id NAA07634; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 13:10:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 13:10:00 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen X-Sender: timcm@battlezone.gpcc.itd.umich.edu To: Amit Tantia Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ram Disk Drivers In-Reply-To: <010001c05a2e$f2424a40$ecb5c5cb@peutronics.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You mean mfs right? try man mfs On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Amit Tantia wrote: > Hello, > > I have an free bsd 4.1.1 running on my system with Apache...and I have an > AMD K6 with 400 mbs ram...I am looking out for a ram disk driver for our > system > > Normally, when you write out to a file the operating system has disk drivers > which write the data out to a physical disk. Some programmers have written > drivers that use memory and make that memory look like a hard drive to the > operating system. This means when you read file from the disk the read > happens VERY VERY quickly (much faster than reading from a hard drive). > > If any one can help me with locating the best source of for a ram disk > driver...I would be very grateful. > > Amit Tantia > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message