From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 29 16:43:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA05469 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 16:43:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ikhala.tcimet.net (ikhala.tcimet.net [198.109.166.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA05409 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 16:43:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dervish@ikhala.tcimet.net) Received: (from dervish@localhost) by ikhala.tcimet.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA18539; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 19:47:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dervish) From: bush doctor Message-Id: <199806292347.TAA18539@ikhala.tcimet.net> Subject: Re: looking for ram file system (NOT MFS) In-Reply-To: from "Ron G. Minnich" at "Jun 29, 98 01:31:36 pm" To: rminnich@Sarnoff.COM (Ron G. Minnich) Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 19:47:20 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Once upon a time said: > On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Paul T. Root wrote: > > In a previous message, Ron G. Minnich said: > > > I'm looking for something like a ram file system for some work i'm doing. > > > It needs to support ram-based lookup, mkdir, rmdir, etc. It needs to be > > > BSD or GPL copyright, and run under current. Any pointers appreciated. > > mfs > > like i said, mfs won't do. It's neat, but it won't do. I have to be able > to take control at lookup(), etc. I can write this, but it will save me > time if there's one out there I can start from. you may want to take a look at the ram disk as implemented in minix-vmd http://minix-vmd.cs.vu.nl i don't recall the copyright that applies but it may be of some help ... > > thanks > ron -- bush doctor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message