memory based filesystem / ramdisk

[Lowell Gilbert]

"Thomas Weber" <thomas at youngarts.org> writes:

> how can i create and mount a memory based filesystem? I've read the
> handbook, but i think i am too stupid to understand it.....
> I only want to create a ramdisk, with for example 16MB in size, and mount it
> to some directory.

man md

If you're doing it for speed, you're probably wasting your time.  
The normal buffering will give you faster responses in most cases.