There appears to be some confusion about ramdisks and tmpfs. A ramdisk
sets aside a fixed amount of memory for its exclusive use, so that a
file being written to ramdisk goes first to the cache, then to ramdisk,
and may exist in both for some time. tmpfs however opens up the cache
to programs so
Indeed, my terminology is inexact. I believe you are correct; our
diskless nodes use tmpfs, not ramdisk. Thanks for the clarification!
On 11/4/11 11:00 AM, Rushton Martin wrote:
There appears to be some confusion about ramdisks and tmpfs. A ramdisk
sets aside a fixed amount of memory for its
