Ramdisk

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A ramdisk emulates a hard disk in RAM.

Example filesystem implementations of ramdisks for Linux are:

  • tmpfs - dynamically allocates the used memory
  • romfs - simple read-only filesystem
  • cramfs - compress data with zlib

See also

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