ramdisk??

Ted Faber faber at ISI.EDU
Tue Jun 10 09:30:12 PDT 2003


On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 04:21:31AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Ted Faber wrote:
> > I mount a swap backed fs (which I what I suspect you want) with:
> 
> I don't think he wants swap backing; I'm going to be that
> his system will have no swap, in order to avoid write
> cycles using up his flash... he probably just wants a small
> amount of volatile storage for /var/run, /var/log, and /tmp,
> with everything else mounted read-only to avoid the access
> timestamp updates.

Yeah, I should have been more clear.  The recipe I gave him didn't
reserve any swap, and I don't think there's be any attempt to write to
disk unless he filled memory.
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