dhw@itivax.iti.org (David H. West) (11/25/89)
Has anyone seen an MSDOS ramdisk which, when full, overflows uncomplainingly onto real disk? That way, when ram is scarce, one could have the speed advantages of ramdisk much of the time by allocating to ramdisk what little ram one can spare, without risking the fatal errors otherwise resulting from ramdisk overflow. I have in mind the use of ramdisk for a /tmp directory, for which the frequency distribution of space-required vs. occasions-of-use is very skewed. This isn't trivial to write, because in some circumstances every file on the ramdisk might need to be continued on real disk, and so might the root directory (maybe avoid the latter problem by keeping the ramdisk cd'ed to a subdirectory?). Freeware or shareware preferred; I have ftp. -David West dhw@itivax.iti.org