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Is there such a thing as a persistent ram drive?

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Mar 15, 20269812 views
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I have a laptop with a LAMP setup. The HDD is slow, which causes my unit tests to run slowly. I was wondering whether I could mount the web root the mysql database on some kind of ramdisk. From what I have read of ramdisks, they are non-persistent. Is there anyway to create a ramdisk that writes ch…

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What you are looking for is something that stores the fs data in memory, persists it if it can, but doesn't worry too much about losing your data (as in if someone turns off the power). You could look into cachefs, and see if you can configure it to…

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