Re: [QUESTION] Filesystem like structure in RAM w/o using filesystem (not ramdisk)

On Thursday 01 December 2005 12:45, Indrek Kruusa wrote:
> Hello!
>
> As I have understood the accessing ramdisk goes through the same kernel
> path which is meant for accessing slow block device (i_nodes caching etc.).
> Is there any other common way (some API above shared memory?) to
> create/open/read/write globally accessible hierarchical datablocks in RAM?
> Could it be possibly faster than ramdisk?

You should take a look at tmpfs, I think that is what you search for.
-- 
Christian

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