RAMDISK: SUMMARY

From: Ken Mighell (mighell@figaro.phys.columbia.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 22 1993 - 08:19:00 CDT


  It is possible to declare a chunk of memory as a ramdisk which is then
treated like a normal disk by SunOS. You can make a tmpfs filesystem
by typing (assuming you are root)

mkdir /ramdisk

and then

mount -t tmp swap /ramdisk

This will only work if your kernel has TMPFS support in it. man tmpfs
gives information how to make a permanent tmpfs file system.

   The name of your kernel is given at the top of /etc/motd.

cd /usr/kvm/sys/sun4c/conf (or wherever your kernel is located)

If your kernel file contains the line

#options TMPFS # tmp (anonymous memory) file system

then you will have to delete the comment character # and rebuild
your kernel by typing

/usr/etc/config <KERNEL FILE NAME>

and then

cd ../<KERNEL FILE NAME>

make

cp /vmunix /vmunix.old

cp vmunix /vmunix

shutdown -r now

Your kernel can now support tmpfs filesystems.

My thanks to everyone who sent me solutions and suggestions.

Ken Mighell

Associate Research Scientist
Department of Astronomy
Columbia University INTERNET: mighell@figaro.phys.columbia.edu
538 West 120th Street PHONE: (212) 854-6899
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