--- In Jim Jackson <> wrote:
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> On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Mike Dodd wrote:
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> > No. My board has no /dev/ram... devices. However, this doesn't
stop
> > mount from mounting ramfs points:
> > mount -t ramfs none /mnt/my_ramfs -o maxsize=512
> >
> > This works perfectly; I can copy files to /mnt/my_ramfs and open
them
> > in vi. Adding this line to /etc/fstab mounts the point at boot
time:
> > none /mnt/my_ramfs ramfs maxsize=512 0 0
>
> I've not come across ramfs before - always something to learn!
> Certainly simpler than the way I've used in the past.
>
> > So I think I'm getting close to what I need. I'm still curious
about
> > tmpfs on the TS-7250 (since the Techologic document showed how it
> > should work), but if ramfs works, I'll take that.
> >
> > Thanks for your information and suggestions.
>
> ditto
> Jim
>
I have serious doubts about the maxsize option , my x86 system man
page says ramfs has NO options.
There are quite a lot of comments about it not working.
Needs to be used with caution !!
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