> With 1TB of RAM you could set aside 128GBish for use as normal memory and 850GB as a RAM disk you can use for copy-back installation. You don't really need r

> With 1TB of RAM you could set aside 128GBish for use as normal memory and 850GB as a RAM disk you can use for copy-back installation. You don't really need ram disks, you can preload things to cache[0] and it will work just as if it were a ramdisk. [0] https://serverfault.com/questions/43383/caching-preloading-files-on-linux-into-ram https://serverfault.com/questions/43383/caching-preloading-f...