On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 10:51:16AM +0100, Richard Danter wrote:
> 
> I was wondering if it makes sense to try reducing flash disk wear by 
> creating a RAM disk and using it for /tmp? It would also have the 
> benefit of improving access times, but with the loss of the used RAM. 
> Has anyone done this? Is it possible? Is it worth doing?

Of course: man mfs

which is a virtual memory based filesystem, but on something like a
Jornada on flash, you also want to avoid using swap on flash, so it
would be effectively a RAM disk.

All the world is using mfs on disk-based and diskless machines to 
decrease access times to /tmp files.

Regards,
	-is