tony@f103a.UUCP (02/10/87)
Hello out there.
I am getting really tired of my hard disc fiddeling around with
this and that on the /tmp area during the compiler sessions.
Does anyone know anything about a RAM-disk device driver available
for the SCO XENIX Sys V (IBM PC/AT). It should behave like an ordinary
block device that you can mount on a directory. Any information about
where you can get such a beast is appreciated.
Please reply through net mail.
/Tony Rogvall (enea!f103a!tony)caf@omen.UUCP (02/13/87)
Your return path was so long a mail reply would never have worked ... SYS V 2.2 includes a ramdisk driver. I haven't tried it yet, don't have enough memory (2.5 MB total) to make it worthwhile. With about 300 buffers on my 2.2 kernel, C compiles don't seem to bang the hard disk that badly on my Intel 386, except for linking. One feature that needs to be added is a way to allow cheap, slow memory to be used for buffers and ramdisks, possibly data segments, but not text segments.