mitch@stride1.UUCP (Thomas P. Mitchell) (01/13/88)
In article <703@mplvax.nosc.MIL> cdl@mplvax.nosc.mil.UUCP (Carl Lowenstein) writes: >In article <17309@topaz.rutgers.edu> ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes: >>CD ROM roots would be bad because CD ROM's are blindingly slow. > >Yes, but all you really want to do is reload the fast-disk root file system >from the CD ROM once in a while, like when you re-boot everything. > One might consider placing the root FS in a demand paged area of memory (AKA RAM DISK) which demand loads from the CD. Then swap pages out to a faster real disk for speedy recall. With a large enough virtual address space one could get rather clever even with modest real memory. Thomas P. Mitchell (mitch@stride1.Stride.COM) Phone: (702) 322-6868 TWX: 910-395-6073 MicroSage Computer Systems Inc. a Division of Stride Micro. Opinions expressed are probably mine.