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Re: [ts-7000] ramdisk

To: Alvaro Aguirre <>
Subject: Re: [ts-7000] ramdisk
From: Triffid Hunter <>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:16:24 +1000 (EST)

On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Angel Rodriguez wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am using a TS-7260 with a Debian on the SD card. I am running a
> program that writes to a buffer continuously. In order to not trash the
> cards I would like to use a ramdisk, or tmpfs or ramfs.
>
> Can this be done on the 7260.  I can see in dmsg that where is says
>
> RAMDISK driver intialized: 16 RAM disk of 12288K size 1024 blocksize
>
> But I can not find how to mount, format and use any sort of memory based
> disk. I have search the list message base and there are some
> references for the 7250, but nothing I can make heads or tail of.
>
>
> Angel

why not make it write to /dev/null? If you hand it a tmpfs, it'll 
eventually fill up all your ram and the kernel's oom-killer will kill 
everything.

mount -t tmpfs -o size=8m randomword /mount/point should work fine if you 
want to go this route anyway



 
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