Re: [ros-dev] Guess who's back

[Jakob Eriksson]

Phillip Susi wrote:

>   Hrm... interesting case.  If you are going to check
> out the 
>  repository, build it, then delete the files, they never need to be 
>  written to disk.  This case might benefit from a temporary filesystem 
>  instead of a ramdisk.  I think it was solaris that has a tempfs that 
>  is specially tailored for temporary files.  It houses them in pagable 
>  memory.  Maybe we could develop a filesystem like that where it stores 
>  files created in it in named memory sections.  That way the filesystem 
>  can grow and shrink as needed, rather than reserving a fixed chunk of 
>  ram all the time. 

Like the AmigaOS RAM disk ... ;-)


//Jakob