Re: [9fans] /tmp in "ram disk"

On 5/31/07, andrey mirtchovski <andrey@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
can't you mount ramfs on / (before) and then create tmp inside ramfs?

Yes, I have also done this in the past. It gets kind of weird because
ramfs is one level ... at least that's my memory. So you can mkdir in
ramfs but things don't appear where you expect them to.

Or is my memory that bad?

OK, I'll try that once the machine I'm on comes back. It "went away"

ron
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