Ram disk with real disk "overflow"

[Roy Smith]

In article <6882 at boring.UUCP> jack at mcvax.UUCP (Jack Jansen) writes:
> Something I've been thinking of (but never came around to doing) is to
> make a device of wich the first bit (say, .5Mb) is RAM disk, and the
> rest is real disk.

	How is this any different from just increasing the size of the
(already existing) kernel i/o buffer pool?
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Roy Smith, {allegra,philabs}!phri!roy
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