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Wouldn't mounting the RAM stick as a ramdisk be enough though?
by Artemis2 12y ago
Wouldn't mounting the RAM stick as a ramdisk be enough though?
- NietTim 12y agoI don't think any current consumer (or enterprise for that matter) conventional motherboard has support for such a large stick. Plus I imagine that this stick will implement some different protocols/whatever to be able to be used directly as a drive
- rlpb 12y agoYou can't address a specific RAM stick, typically. Try and boot an OS without knowledge of this, and it'll start using the stick like it uses RAM. It'll take orders of magnitude longer to boot, to the point of impracticality, probably (I haven't calculated). The OS needs to understand the memory map, and at the minimum exclude use of the stick for "normal" operations. Then, it needs to expose the stick for access - preferably in a way that is more usable than /proc/mem.
- towelguy 12y agoMaybe mounting a tmpfs partition on it?