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Re: mount ramdisk for cygwin


On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Marco Lechner wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> does anybody know if it is possible to create and mount a (userwriteable)
> ramdisk from within the cygwin-environment. To make it clear I modified the
> XLivecd from http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/ to run GRASS-GIS live from CD (not
> userwriteable) for experimental reasons. A nice feature would be, if I could
> add a script wich copies tutorial-data from the CD into a ramdisk and
> deletes the ramdisk after the X-Server is exited, or the Cygwin-environment
> is left. While the XliveCD is running the user could try out the GRASS
> application (i.e. in a tutorial, ...) - nothing at all has to be installed
> on the Windows-Machine.

There is nothing currently in Cygwin that does RAM disks -- in fact,
Cygwin usually uses the underlying Windows filesystem drivers.  However,
there are some things that are similar -- look at virtual filesystems like
/proc, etc.  You could implement your own virtual (writeable) filesystem
that acts as a RAM disk, and submit a patch to Cygwin.  With luck, it
should be integrated [it'll definitely be "Thoughtfully Considered"(tm)].
	Igor
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