/ramdisk

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Ramdisk

Ramdisk is a block device that stores data in RAM.

Build

make

Installation

sudo insmod ram-disk.ko

Removal

sudo rmmod ram-disk

Usage example

sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/myblockdevice

sudo mkdir /mnt/ramdisk

sudo mount /dev/myblockdevice /mnt/ramdisk

cd /mnt/ramdisk

touch testfile.txt

echo "Hello, RAM-disk!" > testfile.txt

cat testfile.txt

sudo umount /mnt/ramdisk