On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 08:34:09 +0100, "Ph. Marek" <marek@bmlv.gv.at>
said:
> as far as i can tell, a ramdrive gets handled the same as every
> other block device and is therefore also cached. is there
> (currently) an easy way to stop this?
A ramdisk *is* the cached copy.
> is there something like the unbuffered partition entries, a
> "raw"-ramdrive?
What for? The ramdisk lives in the cache --- there is no other copy
--- and so it cannot be uncached!
If you wanted a different sort of ramdisk you could write one, but if
you want to access it as a block device, it will necessarily use the
buffer cache anyway: that is an invariant of all block devices (the
whole point of block devices vs. character devices is that there is a
uniform buffer cache access mechanism to all block devices).
--Stephen
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