From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 27 12:28:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB7AC37B408 for ; Mon, 27 May 2002 12:28:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43A3F28D1C for ; Mon, 27 May 2002 15:28:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 15:28:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: FreeBSD LIST Subject: Fwd: FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE and a "RAMdisk?" [May-07-2002] Message-ID: <20020527152626.L79023-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I asked back on May 7th about how to set up a RAMdisk on FreeBSD. Is it analagous to mounting a "procfs" via my /etc/fstab or something? Does the online handbook have some good write-ups about how to make it work? Thanx, -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: root@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com To: FreeBSD Questions LIST Subject: FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE and a "RAMdisk?" Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 13:09:26 -0700 (PDT) Leafing through the latest issue of "2600" magazine (http://www.2600.com) ... recently opened files, etc were saved to and from a RAMdisk instead of the HD. The theory is that no matter how much deletion the user does, no matter how much encryption and passwords are used, there is always swap files and something pesky called microscopy which can recover data from a HD. The article said the system will run the OS, applications and open files faster -- hence I ask: How does one set up a RAMdisk on FreeBSD? :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message