On Wed, 12 May 1999, Simon Burge wrote:

# "Erik E. Fair" wrote:
# 
# > I'm not thinking of running long-term this way (I got a warning in E-mail
# > that CD-ROM drives don't like to be run 24x7; they die), but it would be
# > good to have a robust install/rescue/recovery CD-ROM environment that could
# > run a full NetBSD system off a CD-ROM.
# 
# If you're just after a install/rescue/recovery tool, why not use a
# ramdisk filesystem with everything you need in there?  If memory size
# is an issue you could go as far as having a ramdisk root and CD-ROM
# /usr.
# 

Sounds like what we need is a real caching fs.

# Simon.
# 


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