[ros-dev] Guess who's back

[Jakob Eriksson]

Phillip Susi wrote:

> Hrm... interesting case.  If you are going to check out the 
> repository, build it, then delete the files, they never need to be 
> written to disk.  This case might benefit from a temporary filesystem 
> instead of a ramdisk.  I think it was solaris that has a tempfs that 
> is specially tailored for temporary files.  It houses them in pagable 
> memory.  Maybe we could develop a filesystem like that where it stores 
> files created in it in named memory sections.  That way the filesystem 
> can grow and shrink as needed, rather than reserving a fixed chunk of 
> ram all the time.


Like the AmigaOS RAM disk ... ;-)


//Jakob