Mark Hazen wrote:
> >Hmm, then create a ramdisk and read from the file virtually stored in
> >the RAM.
>
> Stas,
>
> This is an elegant solution that I had not thought of. My problem is that
I
> can't get ramdisks to work on my Red Hat 6.2 with 2.4.9 machine. But
that's
> really my problem, and you've all been a big help.
>
Have a look at TMPFS. It creates a RAM-based filesystem that is more
flexible than a RAM disk. Add to your /etc/fstab:
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none /tmpfs tmpfs defaults,noatime,size=200M 0 0
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...or something similar, and away you go!
