Re: Mylex DAC vs RAM disk in 2.4.2 devfs

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
17 Apr 2001 09:23:45 -0700


Followup to: <20010417140859.E4385@kallisto.sind-doof.de>
By author: Andreas Ferber <aferber@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 01:22:01PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote:
>
> > Mylex controllers for a long time. I am willing to submit patches to the
> > kernel and to devfsd if this suggestion is accepted and someone can suggest a
> > good directory name for ram-disks (I don't want to have the same problem
> > again).
>
> What about simply "ramdisk"? ;-)
>

The standard name is /dev/ramX. If you want it directorized I suggest
/dev/ram/X.

-hpa

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