Ram disk with real disk "overflow"

Geert Rolf grol at oce-rd3.UUCP
Wed Apr 23 20:58:23 AEST 1986


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.
>The problem with RAM disks is that they're usually small, and you loose
>big when they run out of space. If you have an overflow capability onto
>a real disk, there's no problem.

What do you want, Jack?? Another name/implementation for the disc-cache?

	Geert R.
	[don't like oysters; do like shells]



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