Re: MySQL and writing RAMFS for tmp question

On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 19:51 -0700, Mariella Petrini wrote:
> 1)
> mount -t ramfs ramfs /space
>
> 2)
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram1 bs=512 count=97800
> mkfs.ext3 /dev/ram1
> mount /dev/ram1 /space

This is quite silly as tmpfs uses the normal cache (just with no disk backing) and ramfs is then using RAM as a block device... which then running ext3 on (which does journalling and other pointless things).

ramfs will be heaps more efficient. really. the tmpfs code is lovely and simple :)

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