Operating Systems in Memory (I Wonder...)

Fri Dec 15 01:00:24 CST 2006

Get a gigabyte i-RAM device. Stick your extra RAM into that device and
use is as a standard HDD. You will get near RAM speed.

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> [mailto:linuxsa-bounces at linuxsa.org.au] On Behalf Of David Lloyd
> Sent: Friday, 15 December 2006 8:37 AM
> To: linuxsa at linuxsa.org.au
> Subject: Operating Systems in Memory (I Wonder...)
> 
> 
> 
> I'm about to buy myself my Christmas present (a Intel E6300 
> Core 2 Duo) 
> and it seems that I could stack 4Gb of memory into it. It strikes me 
> that for the genrally read only parts of an operating system, 
> you could 
> stack most of that into a write through memory file system and still 
> have memory left over...
> 
> It would go something like this:
> 
> 1. Boot machine
> 2. Copy /usr, /opt into "memory file system"
> 3. Intercept file system calls to look at memory file system
>     - if read, read from memory
>     - if a write, write to memory then write to disk
> 
> Does this sound crazy or am I onto something?
> 
> DSL
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