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List:       aix-l
Subject:    Re: RAM filesystems using AIX
From:       Kevin Laury <kevin.laury () TRW ! COM>
Date:       2001-01-31 20:25:08
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This seems to be what we are looking for. Thanks to everyone who responded.

Regards,
Kevin Laury




Ray <ray@OPS.SELU.EDU> on 01/31/2001 01:29:59 PM

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 Subject: Re: RAM filesystems using AIX









Right.  Here's an older post from this list... i tried this on my test
system and it seemed to work fine.


eliot wrote in message <2000Oct18.010306.52860@nospam>...
here's what worked for us...

mkramdisk 16384  (# of 512K blocks = 8MB in this example)

mkfs -V jfs -o "log=nointegrity,nbpi=512" /dev/ramdisk0

mount -V jfs -o nointegrity /dev/ramdisk0 /mnt

-Ray


On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Kevin Laury wrote:

> That's correct on all points. The mkramdisk command  is undocumented.
Also,
> I am not wanting to take data from
> disk and move it into memory. This would be a volatile filesystem,
created
> and mounted in memory each time we
> reboot, which is hopefully not very often.
>
> I guess an alternative would be solid state storage however we have sized
> this system with the idea that we would
> create our temp filesystem in memory.
>
> Regards,
> Kevin Laury

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