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How to not use your hard disk

Posted Mar 13, 2008 15:36 UTC (Thu) by i3839 (subscriber, #31386)
In reply to: How to not use your hard disk by rvfh
Parent article: How to use a terabyte of RAM

If it's on a separate partition (or image file) you could try a huge value for the "commit"
mount option in ext3. But using tmpfs is probably easier, and just doing a cp -a when wanting
to store it to disk.

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