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