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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: "Hua Zhong" <hzhong@cisco.com>, <root@chaos.analogic.com>
Subject: Re: question about running program from a RAM disk
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 23:55:30 +0100
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On Thursday 28 February 2002 23:24, Hua Zhong wrote:
> In the final system we are going to turn off swap. I had dreamed that Linux
> could directly use the page frame on the RAM disk instead of doing another
> copy :-)
>
> Thanks for the reply

You could use ramfs, which does so for sure.
I am actually not sure about the ramdisk code.

	Regards
		Oliver
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